A Real Pain (18)

★★★★ Jesse Eisenberg writes, directs and stars in a film that manages to be ruefully perceptive and laugh-out-loud funny, often at the same time. ~ The Telegraph.

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“One of the best films of the year.”  Written, directed by and starring Jesse Eisenberg, mismatched cousins David (Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother.

The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

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★★★★★ Written and directed by Jesse  Eisenberg, his story about two cousins on a Jewish tour to Poland is perfectly weighted between bleak and warm, poignant and irreverent. ~ The Times.

★★★★★ The writer, director and actor effortlessly walks a tonal tightrope in this masterpiece about Jewish American cousins on a Holocaust tour in Poland. But Kieran Culkin steals the show as the more mischievous cousin. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ It may be formally unadventurous but A Real Pain is a real treat, a tender, funny treatise on family jealousies and our relationship to the past. Simultaneously light and heavy, it soars on the stellar pairing of Eisenberg and Culkin. ~ Empire.