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.
- 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
- Samuel Castro @ EL Colombiano [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Buena parte del arte de nuestro tiempo está inspirado en el dolor. Piensen en cuántas canciones conocen que recrean el dolor por el abandono del ser amado o la muerte de algún amigo.
- 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.
- Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Kirsten Hawkes @ Parent Previews
- Excerpt: The movie’s historical roots give it warmth and solidity and the strong performances by Eisenberg and Culkin provide believable emotion.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Pays tribute to Poland’s history while anchoring its narrative in the complexities of a familial bond, skillfully blending poignant moments with unexpected humor. It’s an impressive balancing act.
- 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.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Kudos to Eisenberg for finding the sensitivity to not only write this character with such depth of humanity, but also to reject easy answers or solutions for him.
- 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.
- [New] | Diego Salgado @ El Salto [Spanish]
- Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: This mix of normalcy — routine, rehearsed travel tourism — with grief both narrow (passing of a grandparent) and monumental (The Holocaust) could easily have been cloying or overcooked, but it isn’t.
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Take-Up
- Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: By developing its protagonists and their complicated relationship well, the film ends up feeling like an honest experience that tells us a lot about the human experience over several generations.
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