A Real Pain

Film Review: A Real Pain; Jesse Eisenberg’s sophomore feature as a filmmaker is a real triumph

Though there’s the sense that, initially, the characterisation of Benji Kaplan (Kieran Culkin) in A Real Pain is to purely lean into the personality-driven descriptiveness of such a title, writer/director Jesse Eisenberg has other plans in helping us as an audience empathise with his plight.  Benji hones the type of energy that can be described…

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