With “A Real Pain,” Jesse Eisenberg — who wrote, directed and stars in the film — pulls off a kind of magic trick. He’s made a movie with backdrops of pain and despair, both personal and existential, ...

I’ve lived with anxiety and depression my whole life. Some days it’s a heavy fog, some days it’s a full-on emotional mosh pit, and some days it’s just me lying in bed staring at the ceiling wondering ...