Treasure Reviews
The film trundles along with some very jarring cuts, it never feels like it quite knows how to end a scene.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 18, 2024
Neither Fry nor Dunham manage to disappear into their roles; and the film never really springs to life, plodding from moment to moment with leaden feet.
Full Review | Jun 17, 2024
Dunham and Fry, and their chemistry, save this overly Deux Ex Machina story of a Holocaust survivor and his daughter coming to terms. The dreariness of the cinematography is also notable, with these strangers in a strange-but-familiar land. Lena is back!
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 17, 2024
While Treasure sells a pat idea that genocidal, generational trauma can be healed in a single road trip to the scene of the crime, people do not always watch movies for realism, but as part of aspirational wishful thinking.
Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 16, 2024
By confronting the history of the Holocaust through the eyes of a father who survived and his American-born daughter, "Treasure" offers a different perspective.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2024
A film that is thematically sound but stumbles in its execution.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 15, 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.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2024
But, with what’s given, Dunham and Fry, in particular, are able to deliver strong and, at times, emotional performances in Heinz’s sentimental road trip film.
Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 14, 2024
I was never bored watching these two people looking for a home, both in Poland and within each other’s lives.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 14, 2024
The odd-couple chemistry produces some scattered laughs, although the constant bickering as they predictably find common ground isn’t as cathartic for moviegoers.
Full Review | Jun 14, 2024
While Dunham and Fry are both first-rate performers, their respective personae — both public and on-screen — are difficult for them to fully transcend.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2024
“Treasure” is an affecting film, and when those emotional breakthroughs arrive between father and daughter, they are well earned. It just takes a little while to get there, with some unlikely travelers.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 14, 2024
It’s the type of tragicomedy Sundance used to pump out at a relatively fast pace: both inoffensive and more than a little bland.
Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jun 14, 2024
Quiet reflections and honesty inside a troubled, but loving bond and and tug at the hearts. Its And it has its funny moments too.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2024
Unlikely to become a huge hit on the order of almost anything else Dunham might have chosen to do instead. But it only has to be moving and memorable, and it is.
Full Review | Jun 14, 2024
But 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.
Full Review | Jun 14, 2024
“Treasure” is a well-meaning but misguided father-daughter comic drama.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2024
There’s not much chemistry between the two actors, even though they’re meant to be related. A great shame that this important story is not given the care it deserves.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 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.
Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jun 13, 2024
Dunham/Fry is not the duo you want for this story.
Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jun 13, 2024