A Real Pain

Name: A Real Pain
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: November 1, 2024
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 85
Cast: Banner Eisenberg, Daniel Oreskes, Jakub Gasowski, Jennifer Grey, Jesse Eisenberg

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| Release Date: November 1, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Banner Eisenberg, Daniel Oreskes, Jakub Gasowski, Jennifer Grey, Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Kurt Egyiawan, Liza Sadovy, Olha Bosova, Will Sharpe

Summary: Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

Director: Jesse Eisenberg

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jan 8, 2025

Both Culkin and Eisenberg are excellent and this is such a pleasure. Read full review

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RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Oct 31, 2024

It’s a powerful feeling to witness art that reminds us that all aspects of our existence are valuable, especially our pain. Read full review

The Playlist Gregory Ellwood

Jan 21, 2024

While Eisenberg is excellent on screen, especially during a dinner scene when he unloads his concerns over David to his fellow tourists, it’s Culkin who, rightfully, steals the film. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Jan 20, 2024

Together, [Culkin and Eisenberg] make for a winning pair, balancing each other in a variety of ways that speak to the material’s larger concerns about loss, grief, remembrance and regret. Read full review

Donald Clarke

Jan 8, 2025

A small film about great matters. Read full review

Phil de Semlyen

Jan 29, 2024

Culkin, just as motor-mouthed and f-bombing as Succession’s Roman Roy, but here with an extra slug of despair, is the manic yin to Eisenberg’s neurotic but compassionate yang. It’s an inspired on-screen pairing that plays to both actor’s strengths and finds space for melancholy amid some deeply awkward laughs. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Nov 1, 2024

It’s thin and flat, the opposite of inventive, surprising, daring or insightful. Though it’s billed as a comedy-drama, nothing in it generates laughs, even of the cringe variety. Read full review

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