Marianne Jean-Baptiste in “Hard Truths,” Danielle Deadwyler in “The Piano Lesson,” Clarence Maclin in “Sing Sing,” Aunjanue ...

Brian Bowe reviews Mike Leigh's latest, Hard Truths, a tragi-comedy character study featuring an incredible turn from ...

I’m a sick woman,” says Pansy Deacon, the newest in a long line of demanding heroines on offer from filmmaker Mike Leigh. By the time we hear this in Leigh’s Hard Truths, none of us, neither on-screen ...