A Real Pain (2024) review

Web developer David (Eisenberg) travels with his unemployed cousin Benji (Kieran Culkin) from NYC to their grandmother's native Poland to see various Holocaust memorials and then try to locate the house she grew up in, but they have different temperaments, and Benji is still working through personal problems that led to him attempting suicide a few months prior.  The "oddball buddies take a trip" formula is pretty standard at this point, except David is mostly reserved so it relies on (a.) the inherent sadness of the locations they visit (especially the Majdanek concentration camp), (b.) Benji having an outburst every couple of minutes and (c.) too many scenes of either one of them crying for "emotional weight."  The entire time I felt terrible for the other members of their tour group - including their British guide James (Will Sharpe), recently divorced Marcia (Jennifer Grey) and actual survivor Eloge (Kurt Egyiawan) - who have to put up with their constant disruptions, although the scene at the grandmother's tiny home where they place stones on the front porch (as an act of "remembrance") does feel "true": plan all you want, but vacations don't always turn out the way you'd think.