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Film Review: Spirited Kieran Culkin shines in Jesse Eisenberg's deft, accomplished 'A Real Pain'


Film Review: Spirited Kieran Culkin shines in Jesse Eisenberg's deft, accomplished 'A Real Pain'

It's part comedy, part tragedy. It's part road trip saga, part odd couple film, and part Holocaust film. What could possibly have gone wrong? Yes, anything could have gone wrong. So the first miracle “A real pain” Writer-director Jesse Eisenberg's remarkably accomplished film about unlikely cousins ​​on a dark journey through Poland manages the most […]

Jesse Eisenberg has a few questions


Jesse Eisenberg has a few questions

Vanessa Redgrave once compared Jesse Eisenberg to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley because of his “inquiring mind.” Seventeen minutes after my last lunch with Eisenberg in Chelsea, I hadn't asked him a question, but he had bombarded me with many of his own questions. Where did I come from? How did I know so-and-so? Was […]