Brett’s novel was praised for the delicacy with which it balanced the tragic and the ruefully sardonic in its discourse between the generations. In contrast, the film hammers home its every point.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2024

Both leads are horribly miscast. Dunham drags out the same tired, unlikable character she’s been playing her entire career. This film often feels like an episode of “Girls” where Hannah Horvath goes to Lodz.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 20, 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.

| Jun 17, 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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | 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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | 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.

| Jun 14, 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.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 13, 2024

... The movie drifts into a sudsy portrait of the eternal strains between parents and their adult children. You don’t need the memory of the Holocaust for that. The sitcom notes clang louder still.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2024

An uncomfortable experience this: a laboriously acted odd-couple heartwarmer starring Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry, with a sentimentality unsuited to its theme: the horrors of the Holocaust.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 12, 2024

Because the casually observational moments of Julia von Heinz’s film are so rich, its thematic contrivance becomes harder to accept.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 10, 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.

| Feb 27, 2024

Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham are the charismatic double act you never knew you needed in this low-key tearjerker about repressed grief and family tensions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2024

Treasure is a curiously inert work, a film that feels as emotionally grey and underlit as its cinematography.

| Feb 18, 2024

Sombre, sluggish and usually on the right side of respectable, Julia von Heinz’s film eventually bottles its task, coming to mollifying conclusions about the 20th century’s starkest horrors.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 18, 2024

So muddled and misbegotten it’s hard to perform an evidential postmortem, based strictly on one viewing, of where it all goes wrong.

| Feb 18, 2024