Writer-director Jesse Eisenberg's “A Real Pain” strikes an almost impossible balance. It’s part comedy, part tragedy. It’s part road-trip saga, part odd couple-buddy flick, and part Holocaust film.

A Real Pain' is a wonderfully funny and heartfelt film about reconnecting with your family, heritage, and identity.

A Holocaust tour of Poland forms the backdrop for a wise tale of mismatched cousins.

Both that movie and “A Real Pain,” from Searchlight Pictures, were produced by Eisenberg’s Oscar-winning “ Zombieland ” ...

Kieran Culkin is great in "A Real Pain," written and directed by co-star Jesse Eisenberg. The film, about two cousins in ...

With A Real Pain, Jesse Eisenberg, that jittery mensch of an actor, continues his journey of writing and directing films in ...

Two cousins, once close as youngsters, are given a trip to trace their roots back in Poland. For both, because they are opposites in every way, it becomes “A Real Pain.” ...

Eisenberg seems to be asking, how "valid" are these types of pain set against the historic pain that the film explores in ...

Photo courtesy of Paramount. From writer and director Jesse Eisenberg comes a powerfully funny exploration of family, grief, ...

In Jesse Eisenberg's "A Real Pain," now in theaters, two cousins reunite for a tour through Poland in honor of their recently ...

Everyone’s entitled to their opinions unless of course they’re dumb ones. Speaking of which, I never understood the ...