Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Chris Barsanti @ Slant Magazine
- Excerpt: Eisenberg’s film doesn’t embraces easy answers or platitudes.
- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: Funny and easing you in to resonate with its two characters, it’s an impressively beautiful film made all the better with Eisenberg and a possible career highlight in Culkin’s work.
- [New] | Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: A Real Pain’ explores the traumas of our past through humor and heart, led by a great Jesse Eisenberg and a stellar Kieran Culkin
- [New] | Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Eisenberg’s film cuts both ways, as an often very funny comedy as well as a gut punch of self realization and the attendant (and ironic) self absorption which blinds us to the pain of others.
- [New] | Nell Minow @ moviemom.com
- Excerpt: When David’s patience runs out, Eisenberg delivers a beautiful speech to the rest of the group about his love, frustration, worry, and his envy for Benji’s easy ability to connect and endear himself to everyone he meets.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: Jesse Eisenberg’s sophomore feature ‘A Real Pain’ is an effective character study about two polar opposite cousins that’s warm, funny, and thoughtful. Kieran Culkin and his smug, offhanded charm is the film’s defining high point.
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Take-Up
