A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re hyperreal. Especially Hard Truths, in which his take on a ...

The Substance won the Best Feature Film prize at the Girls on Film Awards in London on Sunday. Writer-director Coralie ...

The members of the film academy voted to honor a few outliers — and overlook a couple of hopeful contenders — at the 97th ...

Oscar nominations are here, and as always, they’ve delivered plenty of drama. Netflix’s divisive musical crime drama leads ...

From Emilia Pérez and its 13(!) nominations to the profoundly gross The Substance getting a Best Picture nod, the 2025 Oscar nominees addressed big social and political issues, all to varying degrees.

It may be awards season, but for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, family always takes center stage. During a recent interview with USA TODAY, the Oscar-nominated actress shared a personal update after her ...

It follows a middle-aged North London misanthrope named Pansy, who's played, in the single greatest performance I saw in 2024, by Marianne Jean-Baptiste. You might know Jean-Baptiste from Leigh's ...

She’s played by the great Marianne Jean-Baptiste, whose powerhouse performance could very well win her the Best Actress Academy Award. Like his other films, including 1996’s “Secrets & Lies ...

Look hard — and, in all likelihood, in vain — for a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.” She plays Pansy, a Londoner who ...