Sunday, February 2, 2025

A Real Pain (2024)

Nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay    Content warning:  Holocaust, concentration camp imagery

David (Jesse Eisenberg) booked a trip to Poland with his slacker cousin Benji (Kieran Culkin) to honor their late grandmother.  Benji is by turns charming and abrasive, causing friction in the rest of the tour group and leaving David to deal with the emotional turmoil left in Benji's wake.

This movie said nothing and showed even less.  There's a lot about familial guilt but zero acknowledgement that sometimes you have to let people go when they don't want to be helped.  Instead, it wallows in vague bad feelings.  

A slog and not worth your time, but streaming on Hulu.

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