The Treatment Reviews
It's an intelligent and thought-provoking romantic comedy.
| Original Score: B | May 7, 2008
Its otherwise straightforward narrative does what it can to revive the corpse of grown-up romance, with just enough surrealism to save the film from its more serious impulses.
| Feb 1, 2008
Valiant effort, but someone should have begged for a rewrite.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2007
A small film about a high school teacher in an elite Manhattan prep school, but it's filled with large doses of wit and insight.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2007
The Treatment finds its agreeable pace. We've heard this particular story before, but it holds up to a skilled retelling.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2007
Oren Rudavsky's adaptation of Daniel Menaker's novel is a quietly enjoyable romantic comedy for adults who like to see characters acting like adults.
| Original Score: B | Aug 23, 2007
This film is so much more believable, amusing and entertaining than the crap we had to listen to in 'Knocked Up'.
Full Review | Aug 12, 2007
--- cerebral, intelligently written and well acted adult fare ---
Full Review | Aug 12, 2007
Chris Eigeman finally gets to show his range in this romantic comedy.
| Aug 10, 2007
A smart, tender love story.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 10, 2007
Janssen is an intense screen presence. Too often she's stuck playing humorless towering antagonists. Here, happily, she's allowed to be a real person.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2007
Eigeman has been in training for this kind of thing for years, but the pleasant surprise is Janssen, who shows a gift for clever dialogue. This is light fare, but it's smart, enjoyable light fare.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2007
The three main performances are what carry the film
| Original Score: C+ | Jul 14, 2007
...our emotional involvement remains superficial, and we never get that sense of uplift that Allen's better romantic city tales have given us.
| Jul 5, 2007
Who wants to behave well in bed?
| Jun 29, 2007
Considering the furious pace at which Allen himself cranks out second-rate comedies these days, why bother with a limp imitation?
| Jun 23, 2007
Having an affair of the heart...and mind.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 16, 2007
Treatment has small intentions, but its friendliness and caution with melodrama makes it a swell change of pace from other neurotic essays on self-absorption.
| Original Score: B | Jun 14, 2007
The Treatment is richest when it zooms in on the testy co-dependence between analyst and analysand. It's high time for a comedy about the decline and fall of traditional psychoanalysis.
Full Review | Jun 14, 2007
The Treatment feels too much like an indulgence.
| Original Score: 2/4 | May 25, 2007