“A Real Pain” Fails to Stay in Its Discomfort Zone
November 5, 2024
A road movie with a twist, “A Real Pain”—which Jesse Eisenberg wrote, directed, and stars in—builds the eventful but thin foreground of its journey on a deep foundation of...
Jesse Eisenberg Has a Few Questions
October 27, 2024
Vanessa Redgrave once compared Jesse Eisenberg to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, because of his “inquiring mind.” Seventeen minutes into my recent lunch with Eisenberg, in Chelsea, I had...
California enacts law reviving a Jewish family’s claim to Nazi-looted art, bucking 9th Circuit
September 17, 2024
California lawmakers have bucked one of the nation’s most powerful federal courts by enacting a new state law designed to reunite a Jewish family with an exquisite Impressionist painting...