This review was originally published on January 26, 2024 out of the Sundance Film Festival. We are recirculating it now timed to A Real Pain’s streaming debut on Hulu.
A touching character study anchored by a lively Kieran Culkin performance, Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain moves gently and smoothly but hints at an all-consuming darkness underneath. The film, one of the breakout titles in the early days of this year’s Sundance, was bought by Fox Searchlight immediately after its world premiere, and it’s not hard to see why. The picture’s charming modesty is its great virtue; it’s a light movie with a heavy heart.
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