Treasure
Bleecker Street Media | Release Date: June 14, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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1
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12
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IndieWireDavid EhrlichJun 13, 2024
Co-written by John Quester, von Heinz’s script tends to operate more like a wrecking ball than a controlled demolition, but Fry and Dunham endow their scenes with a brick-by-brick specificity that brings their characters to their life — the former in spite of Edek’s general buffoonery, and the latter in spite of the humorlessness that Ruth has developed as a reaction to it. Read full review
60
EmpireAlex GodfreyJun 14, 2024
It’s all a little too lightweight, and not above corniness and sentimentality, but it does earn its little emotional breakthroughs, modest as they are. And the sense of time and place is vivid. Read full review
60
TheWrapBen CrollMay 9, 2024
The self-contained “Treasure” ambles along on the strength of a fine, self-contained script and two winning performers, without ever reflecting or commenting on the historical weight it sets out to explore. Read full review
60
The IndependentGeoffrey MacnabMay 9, 2024
At times, it plays more like a sitcom than a story about the legacy of the death camps. Thankfully, it still provides probing insight into everything from casual antisemitism to the plague of historical forgetfulness. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyJun 14, 2024
This is a confounding movie. Its pace is leaden, its structure lopsided, and while Dunham and Fry are both first-rate performers, their respective personae — both public and on-screen — are difficult for them to fully transcend. Read full review
50
Screen RantGraeme GuttmannJun 13, 2024
There are great moments in the quiet of Treasure, the scenes where director Julia von Heinz's camera lingers on a look, an item, or a landscape. But Treasure finds itself stuck in the middle of these tender moments and a heavy-handed way with emotion that has good intentions but doesn't land the same. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergJun 13, 2024
Whatever complexities might come across in the book don’t register in a film that has been fashioned, sometimes uneasily, into a sentimental father-daughter road movie. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineSeth KatzJun 10, 2024
Because the casually observational moments of Julia von Heinz’s film are so rich, its thematic contrivance becomes harder to accept. Read full review
50
VarietyGuy LodgeMay 9, 2024
A film with heart but no real teeth, the commendable sensitivity of which turns too easily toward the sentimental. Read full review
42
The Film StageChristian GallichioJun 14, 2024
The exploration of a survivor and their child navigating post-Soviet Poland is, on the surface, compelling, but Treasure doesn’t seem capable of threading the needle between a micro portrait of generational trauma and macro, collective trauma that is omnipresent throughout Poland in this era. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Charlotte O'SullivanJun 18, 2024
The truth about Treasure: it’s too conventional to satisfy devotees of Lena Dunham and too much of a vehicle for Dunham to please anyone else. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawJun 12, 2024
Something has perhaps been lost in the edit. This never quite comes together. Read full review
40
Screen DailyWendy IdeMay 9, 2024
Treasure is a curiously inert work, a film that feels as emotionally grey and underlit as its cinematography. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonJun 11, 2024
Julia von Heinz’s direction can’t handle the film’s tonal shifts, and the screenplay (co-written by von Heinz and John Quester) centers on two very poorly written leads who clash in ways that are supposed to be comedic but are mostly infuriating. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinMay 9, 2024
Alas, the film is an inept, ill-made mess — or as my grandmother would call it, a mishegoss, so muddled and misbegotten it’s hard to perform an evidential postmortem, based strictly on one viewing, of where it all goes wrong. Read full review
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