Hulu, just one week before 2025 Oscar nominations are announced. The movie premiered at the 2024 edition of the Sundance Film Festival and has since racked up accolades including the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance.
It was named a top 10 film of the year by both the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute, and Kieran Culkin became the third actor ever to win Best Supporting Actor honors from all of the “big four” critics associations (the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, NBR, the National Society of Film Critics, and the New York Film Critics Circle).Things are looking good for “A Real Pain” heading into Oscar nominations morning on January 23.Jesse Eisenberg wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the film opposite Culkin, who also won a Golden Globe for his work on the film.
It was among the 12 films nominated in the Best Motion Picture categories at the Globes, too, and Eisenberg picked up nods for his lead performance in the film and the screenplay.
The Post’s entertainment critic Johnny Oleksinski called the film “one of the best movies of [2024]’s [Sundance] fest so far,” and, touching on Culkin’s performance, wrote “Culkin gives viewers the pull-the-fire-alarm quality they love about his untethered personality on “Succession” or during award show speeches in which he muses on his ear hairs.
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