This time last year, industry experts and armchair pundits began the drumbeat for Kieran Culkin's performance in A Real Pain. The intimate drama about a pair of cousins (Culkin and writer-director ...

Actor, writer and director Jesse Eisenberg says he has had more failures than successes. In this week's Wild Card, he opens ...

The 2025 Oscar nominations spotlight a significant slice of the best films of 2024, with this year’s nominees ranging the ...

Eisenberg's film follows two cousins on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland, which includes a stop at the Majdanek death camp.

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 ...

The Mets officially announced that they’ve re-signed Jesse Winker on a one-year deal. The Excel Sports Management client is reportedly guaranteed $7.5MM (including a $1MM signing bonus ...

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But the second directorial venture from actor Jesse Eisenberg, which he also wrote and stars in, is considerably more than the seemingly slight sum of its parts. A Real Pain is a whip-sharp comedy ...

With this film, director Jesse Eisenberg masterfully navigates the treacherous terrain of historical trauma and familial dysfunction, balancing sardonic humour with piercing solemnity. His ...

Interior Chinatown), Adriana Diaz (CBS Mornings), Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain), Cole Escola (Hacks, Oh Mary!), Bridget Moynahan (Blue Bloods), Michael McKean (The Diplomat), Annette O’Toole ...

One of the films that has emerged as a big player in the ongoing awards season is A Real Pain – even if writer, director and star Jesse Eisenberg admitted that he initially thought his film was ...