Release date: November 1, 2024 (USA)
Director: Jesse Eisenberg
Distributed by: Searchlight Pictures
Box office: $1,020,065
Produced by: Ewa Puszczyńska; Jennifer Semler; Jesse Eisenberg; Emma Stone; Ali Herting; Dave McCary
Production companies: Topic Studios; Fruit Tree; Rego Park; Extreme Emotions;
Welcome fellow movie goers to Popped.blog with this weeks batch of “Reviews”. Starting with A Real Pain followed by Red One.
A real pain follows two Jewish cousins David & Benji (Being played by Jesse Eisenberg & Kieran Culkin) as they venture on a tour of Poland to honor their late grandmother.
With an excellent sound track with beautiful melody of piano music travelling the inner connection between scenes. I fell in love with the surrounds and musical notes that brought scenes completely together.
The connection between the two cousins kept me engaged and entertained throughout. Benji is unlike David and with that some old tensions resurface while exploring their family history.
Benji had so many layers to explore the movie felt wrapped and yet open to explore with Benji’s journey. Something of which David was able to have closed in a manner that left me feeling a real pain to drop my 7 to a 6.5/10 just slightly missing the mark of a good movie.
It’s a fine line, a very fine line of being a good solid 7 however I wanted 1 more scene for Benji. The supporting cast with the tour group were a delight and honestly did a really good job mixing up their characters with Benji and David in totally polar opposite ways.
It’s a short movie and thus worth checking out if you happen to catch it streaming or at the theatre this weekend. Next week are the biggens so ensure some appetizers before the big 3 of November.
A Real Pain will be getting a 6.5/10 placing it above average.
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