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Releasing on Oct 18, 2024
- 2024
- Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 2024
- Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 2024
- Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 2024
- Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
A Real Pain
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
11% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
84
89% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
11% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A Real Pain is an easy watch, a buddy movie rooted in the existential fun of verbal sparring. Yet it has an emotional kick that sneaks up on you.
Not only has a real filmmaker emerged with A Real Pain, with both the sensitivity and boldness that could launch a career, but Eisenberg has never let himself be this exposed as a performer.
Eisenberg knocks it out of the park and proves he is a triple threat to be reckoned with, with solid writing, confident directing, and stellar acting — even if, at the end of the day, the film really does belong to Culkin.
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.
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.
Make no mistake: Culkin is the movie’s heart and soul as the eccentric, unpredictable wanderer Benji, but “A Real Pain” is — at the risk of it being too early in the filmmaker’s career to coin this term — Eisenbergian through and through.
A Real Pain is occasionally insightful on the subject of suffering, sometimes funny, a bit endearing, a little pretentious, often dry.
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Production Company
Topic Studios,
Extreme Emotions,
Fruit Tree
Release Date Oct 18, 2024
Duration 1 h 30 m
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
