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Two chairs on an empty train platform under a grey Polish sky.

A Real Pain: Jesse Eisenberg's Two-Handed Script

Jesse Eisenberg's second film as director is a tightly written cousins-on-a-trip movie that uses its ninety minutes to say something particular about inheritance, grief, and the specific tolerances of family.

Priya Nair·10 Sep·7 min

Two men walking together through a cobblestone street in an old Polish town.

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A Real Pain: Eisenberg's Cousins Movie

Jesse Eisenberg's second feature as director-writer is a specifically small, specifically patient Polish heritage-tour film, and the film it most resembles is a Broadway play that someone has somehow filmed correctly.

Jules Okonkwo·28 Aug·6 min