Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain begins and ends with Kieran Culkin’s face, taut with unresolved grief, eyes heavy with the weight of something unspeakable. The familiar wild-eyed Roman Roy charm ...
A Real Pain movie review: At one point in A Real Pain, a tightly knit story about families, histories and trauma, Eisenberg’s character David talks about his exasperation at his mercurial cousin Benji ...
Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg in A Real Pain (2024) Jesse Eisenberg’s cleverly titled A Real Pain follows two American cousins who make a trip to Poland to visit the house in which their ...
It’s a slip of a thing, clocking in at a tight 90 minutes; a deft, light-footed amalgamation of two potentially formulaic comedy genres: the road movie and the mismatched buddy flick ... unpredictable ...
played by Macaulay Culkin, defends the house and himself from a pair of robbers, the Wet Bandits, with a series of clever tricks. The movie made a star out of the house where most of the action ...
In A Real Pain, Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg play mismatched ... Eisenberg wrote and directed the movie, which was released theatrically on Nov. 1, 2024, marking his feature film debut ...