Another great little film from a country that doesn't stop surprising us. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2023

A film so wispy and deadset against narrative momentum that it threatens to float away, but writer-director Porumboui's emotional restraint, cultural intelligence and minor-key humor keep you tethered for the duration.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2019

The Treasure walks the razor's edge between tones, but never veers into the realm of dark comedy. Porumboiu values the playfulness of words over the visceral, the political and social subtext of contradictory statements and scenarios.

| Nov 3, 2018

... a film of such a simple, simple, and impeccable realization, that once again focuses on ethics and morals... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 22, 2018

[Treasure] is an inadvertent journey back into Romania's history, a search for the nameless treasure buried beneath decades of disappointment, dictatorship, and war.

| Oct 17, 2017

A film that links revolutions, the World Wars, communism and the current crisis with apparent lightness, becoming a story for difficult times. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 8, 2017

A necessarily absurd, slightly surreal and always lucid comdey that is a reflection of the current crisis. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 8, 2017

An adventure film, although anyone can tell by seeing its deliberately fetish and consciously reiterative images, set in frigid offices. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 8, 2017

A film that has a lot of nuances that hides its apparent simplicity. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2017

Very much in line with the nibbling sarcasm and historical long-view that made 12:08 East of Bucharest so great.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 8, 2016

A film that recalls the clarity of the parable or children's story in its unadorned yet subtly suggestive narrative.

| Original Score: Recommended | Mar 21, 2016

[A] tightly focused, minimalist and enchantingly humane story of individual struggle within the broader social reality of contemporary Romania.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 22, 2016

These recent Romanian films have sometimes been gloomy about both past and future, but The Treasure sprinkles a little sugar in the medicine.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2016

As the title suggests, there are rewards in this slight but consistently amusing gem.

| Jan 29, 2016

If the humor were any drier, it would be dust.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2016

A less artful version of A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence - though it may help to be Romanian.

| Jan 21, 2016

Slowly ... something changes, and the functionality of Porumboui's style gives way to an ever-so-slight hint of wonder.

| Jan 10, 2016

"The Treasure" suggests that you can have both feet of clay and flights of fancy, and in the battle between the prosaic and the pie-eyed, the prosaic doesn't always have to win.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 9, 2016

The Treasure is a one-note film that's a dry, bleak endeavor, devoid of character and lacking personality.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 8, 2016

It's good absurdist stuff, a little reminiscent of the work of Aki Kaurismki, albeit without that filmmaker's wooly-headed whimsy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 8, 2016