Hard Truths

Reviews

• "Jean-Baptiste is breathtakingly good, and it’s so nice to have Leigh back on the dramatic scene. He’s ESSENTIAL to it."
  - RogerEbert.com
• "You believe this woman exists. And Leigh and Jean-Baptiste ensure she will haunt you."
  - The Playlist
• "That’s HARD TRUTHS, in a nutshell: people. People you won’t forget, courtesy of a handful of remarkable actors and a singular director who at the age of 81 remains a true treasure."
  - TheWrap
• "Leigh's strategy of taking us into his characters' world without prelude or explanation, letting the revelations and backstory waft out, help make his films feel authentic."
  - BBC.com
• "It's an unflinching, detailed character study, but Hard Truths is hard work."
  - London Evening Standard
• "Just 97 minutes long, Hard Truths is a deceptively slight movie that can barely contain its titanic central performance."
  - Slate
• "It's one of the very few great films of 2024."
  - Wall Street Journal
• "It’s an exceptional performance from Jean-Baptiste."
  - Guardian
• "Leigh knows we don’t need to know all the “whys.” What he’s really interested in is the “what,” and Jean-Baptiste, in this astonishing performance, walks hand-in-hand with him to fill in the mosaic of this character."
  - TIME Magazine
• "In Mike Leigh’s lacerating new film, Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a hall-of-fame acting triumph as a London housewife and mother who’s mad at the world and ready to give us all a tongue-lashing. She’s an emotional powderkeg ready to blow. Better duck."
  - ABC News