A REAL PAIN is the story of two cousins on a life-changing trip. Jewish cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benjamin aka Benji (Kieran Culkin) reside in the USA. They head to Poland as part of a ...
As the Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday in Park City, Utah, here’s a look at two of the entries from last year's ...
While Jesse Eisenberg's David is perhaps the "everyman" and the audience's entry point into the story, Benji is the heart of A Real Pain. Watching his layers of trauma and emotionality unfold ...
Eisenberg's film follows two cousins on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland, which includes a stop at the Majdanek death camp.
Examining what it means to make money by selling the bereaved on an illusion, the film feels like something of a warning. By Alissa Wilkinson Mel Gibson directs an uneven action film with Mark ...
The competition for on-demand movies has grown in recent years beyond cable companies like Time-Warner, Charter, Cox Fios and Xfinity to online video-on-demand companies like FandangoNow and ...
The tension that brews between the children and the parents as a result of miscommunication over the journey across the sea is where the movie is at its best form. After a series of car chases and ...
Usually, Netflix’s top movies for the week are settled by Friday. But this week, Netflix’s two biggest new additions — Scream 6 and Saturday Night — aren’t arriving until Saturday ...
While the Oscar nominations are bringing attention back to last year’s slate of films, the new year promises a new schedule of movies for cinephiles to keep an eye out for. From awards season ...
A mainstream genre film that attempts to stay relevant while reinventing conventional storytelling techniques and tropes has the potential to become a popular, memorable sculpture of its period.
A Real Pain is a buddy comedy-drama.
The sheer volume of films on Netflix — and the site’s less than ideal interface — can make finding a genuinely great movie there a difficult task. To help, we’ve plucked out the 50 best ...