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Hard Truths
Directed by
Mike Leigh
R
2024
1h 37m
Drama
,
Comedy
7.2
95%
82%
Rent for $5.99
Ongoing exploration of the contemporary world with a tragicomic study of human strengths and weaknesses.
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Cast of Hard Truths
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Pansy
Michele Austin
Chantelle
David Webber
Curtley
Tuwaine Barrett
Moses
Ani Nelson
Kayla
Sophia Brown
Aleisha
Jonathan Livingstone
Virgil
Jo Martin
Nurse Salon Client
Llewella Gideon
Smoking Salon Client
Yvette Boakye
Salon Client
Chinenye Ezeudu
Salon Client
Elliot Edusah
Sofa Couple (Daniel)
Tiwa Lade
Sofa Couple (Savannah)
Alice Bailey Johnson
Furniture Assistant
Gary Beadle
Irate Motorist
Diveen Henry
Supermarket Customer
Bryony Miller
Supermarket Customer
Ashna Rabheru
Cashier
Samantha Spiro
Nicole
Syrus Lowe
Kayla’s Colleague
Naana Agyei-Ampadu
Aleisha’s Supervisor
Ruby Bentall
Doctor
Hiral Varsani
Dentist
Khali Best
Street Boy
Jyuddah Jaymes
Street Boy
Donna Banya
Moses’s New Friend
Mike Leigh
Director / Writer
Georgina Lowe
Producer
Hard Truths Ratings & Reviews
Rowan Krzysiak
February 14, 2025
It's a slog and there's not much payback. Little moments here and there could be debated by people in film clubs but I just came away not really feeling any of the consequences. Not enjoyable and only memorable for the wrong reasons
Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)
Mark Kermode
A really fine film.
The New Republic
K. Austin Collins
Leigh's trademark approaches-the dramatically significant reaction shots, the subtextual selves bubbling up within each conversation-are all on display here and are not original... the story itself, with its microfocus on impotent rage, feels revelatory.
The Atlantic
Shirley Li
Hard Truths itself is astonishingly sensitive for a portrait of someone who often behaves monstrously. Leigh depicts Pansy's journey with a wrenching empathy, carefully revealing how her irascibility is caused by burdens both specific and mundane.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Hard Truths is in fact quite generous in its exploration of a woman in profound pain, and you want to meet it with the same compassion.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
In partnership with his actors, Leigh excavates and displays the most vulnerable emotions and experiences a person can have, his films slowly building to cathartic crescendos, with glimmers of hope and salvation shining through.
Chicago Reader
Kat Sachs
I'd qualify this as minor Leigh but with major performances; as the antagonistic protagonist Pansy, Marianne Jean-Baptiste (previously acclaimed for her role in Leigh's 1996 film Secrets & Lies) is hilarious and heartbreaking.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Pansy is exhausting, for the viewer as well as her family, and the film doesn't provide the catharsis needed to turn so much bile into a path toward redemption… or anything, really.
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Much like real life, Leigh's unscripted, mostly improvised movies do not offer easy answers.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
As is typical of Leigh, the film offers no pat answers, just a bit of hope for Moses and a long, beautifully ambiguous final close-up of Pansy - an entire novel, in one remarkable face.
Salon.com
Coleman Spilde
Hard Truths is a film for a world that has only gotten angrier, yet its prolific central collaboration cleverly suggests that enduring mutual respect is a force powerful enough to combat such profound rage.
Washington Post
Ty Burr
Where some Leigh films bear down on their main characters, "Hard Truths" feels expansive and forgiving, except when it comes to the mystery of Pansy herself.
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Thelma Adams
The brilliantly-acted story begins with laughs, then inexorably darkens. Legendary director Mike Leigh, 81, offers fewer answers than questions about grief and the human condition.
Boston Globe
Odie Henderson
"Hard Truths" is a definitive work in Leigh's canon. His first film in six years serves as the swan song for his longtime cinematographer, Dick Pope, who died in 2024. It is also one of his meanest movies.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
It's certainly a tour-de-force triumph for Jean-Baptiste who is on fire in every scene and gives a fearless performance that is one for the ages.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
It's Marianne Jean-Baptiste that ultimately shoulders the film... It's such a virtuoso display of heart and spleen in equal measures.
Los Angeles Times
Amy Nicholson
He's constructed this movie like a quilt. Every scene is a comment on the art of complaining. This is, believe it or not, a pro-complaining film.
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
It is a truly blistering performance from Jean-Baptiste, reuniting with Leigh after many years, in a collaboration that was entirely worth the wait and speaks volumes for his brilliant, unconventional process.
The New Yorker
Justin Chang
Arriving nearly three decades after Secrets & Lies, Hard Truths has the feel of a genuine companion work. Intentionally or not, it expands on, completes, and at times challenges its predecessor.
Slate
Dana Stevens
Just 97 minutes long, Hard Truths is a deceptively slight movie that can barely contain its titanic central performance.
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