The Treasure
Sundance Selects | Release Date: January 8, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
85
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Universal acclaim based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJan 7, 2016
The final shot, accompanied by an improbable but perfect musical cue, is an astonishing cinematic gesture, an appalling, hilarious statement about modern values, the state of the world, human nature and everything else. This is a movie that lives up to its name. Read full review
91
The PlaylistJessica KiangOct 9, 2015
Aptly named and drolly executed, leading to a transcendently funny, endearing and unexpected finale, The Treasure confirms Corneliu Porumboiu as the joker in the Romanian New Wave pack. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJan 12, 2016
Drolly funny and rigorously executed, Corneliu Porumboui’s The Treasure offers a fine example of the conceptual boldness that characterizes much of New Wave Romanian cinema. Read full review
90
The New YorkerRichard BrodyJan 5, 2016
Filming with long, ironically balanced takes, Porumboiu delivers an ingeniously intricate goofball comedy that evokes heroes of legend while bringing sociological abstractions to mucky life. Read full review
90
VarietyScott FoundasOct 9, 2015
Porumboiu’s particular brand of farce is always shot through with the pulse of everyday life and its Sisyphean struggles. He is, simply put, one of our great contemporary observers of the human comedy. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyJan 8, 2016
The film’s final scene is both charming and hilarious and puts a delightful ribbon on top of what the film’s opening so sneakily established. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneOct 8, 2015
The Treasure is no thriller, but there are moments here that inculcate the stakes with prisoner's-dilemma paranoia. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJan 6, 2016
Over the years, Porumboiu (Police, Adjective) has come to be considered an acquired taste, but this droll comedy is his most accessible movie since the breakthrough "12:08 East Of Bucharest"; its left turns and sense of humor shouldn’t seem alien to anyone who appreciates, say, early "Louie," even if the style is a heck of a lot more minimalist. Read full review
83
IndieWireEric KohnOct 9, 2015
The Treasure may not be a major work from Porumboiu or his filmmaking tradition, but it proves that even cerebral formalism has its soft side. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranJan 7, 2016
Deadpan, determinedly low key and deeply absurd, the films of Corneliu Porumboiu are very much a particular taste, and The Treasure is no different. Read full review
80
Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonJan 5, 2016
In a manner so sly you could overlook it, Porumboiu invests this tissue-thin premise with the shadows of Romanian history. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerOct 9, 2015
In Porumboiu’s movies, what you see is never what you get, and there are riches to be had if you just keep looking. Read full review
80
Screen DailyStaff (Not Credited)Oct 9, 2015
The Treasure once again demonstrates that even though there is little chance of his breaking down the doors of your next door multiplex, Porumboiu is certainly one of the most original filmmakers to emerge in the recent past. Read full review
80
The GuardianJordan HoffmanOct 8, 2015
Laughs emerge from the recognisable micro-horrors found in modern living, which, if the world was run in the way we all agree it should be run, wouldn’t exist. Read full review
75
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeJan 6, 2016
This sounds like a comedy, and in its slow, deadpan way, that’s what The Treasure is; the film is an unusual mixture of joy and cynicism. Read full review
60
CineVueJohn BleasdaleOct 9, 2015
Although not quite the bounty of its title, The Treasure rewards the patient viewer with a quietly enchanting drama. Read full review
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