“A Real Pain”: Kieran Culkin, the triumph of an ex-child star

In the remarkable “A Real Pain”, with and with Jesse Eisenberg, in theaters this Wednesday, February 26, Kieran Culkin makes us go through two types of feelings. At times, we want to stick slaps to him. To others, he touches us and moves us to tears. It seems that it is a bit like that in life, hence the fact that this ex-child star often inherits, since he was an adult, of roles of types that are both annoying, even detestable, and fragile to the point that we want to take him in his arms.