Given Woody Allen's cancelled, pariah-like status in Hollywood, it will probably do no favors to Jesse Eisenberg for me to compare his new film A Real Pain to Allen's best work, but I'm going to anyway. A serio-comic film of genuine depth, nuance, and humanity that asks hard questions in a meaningful way, A Real Pain brings to mind the kind of films that Allen made with astonishing regularity in the 1970s and '80s'”Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). Like Allen in his heyday, Eisenberg has proved himself to be ... Read More