The Treatment
Metascore
54 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
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  1. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    80
    John Zorn's ethnically tinged score is effectively minimalist without succumbing to Philip Glass-style monotony, and Harris Yulin is effective as the hero's semi-estranged father.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    75
    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.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    75
    The film is a pleasant breeze that refreshes, mostly because it's a rare, thoughtful comedy clearly intended for grown-ups.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    70
    Odd, funny film.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    67
    The filmmaking is rudimentary in The Treatment, Oren Rudavsky's adaptation of Daniel Menaker's novel, but the feeling for the patient-and-shrink dynamic is authentic.
  6. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    60
    Best of all is Holm, who is consistently hilarious as the sarcastic shrink from hell.
  7. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    60
    Short, sweet, and hardly ever cloying, The Treatment is largely dependent for its success on the quality of its performances--most surprisingly, Eigeman's.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    60
    This offbeat charmer succumbs to the same airless artificiality that has claimed many recent efforts in the genre.
  9. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    The Treatment fails to do anything interesting with Jake.
  10. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    50
    A feather-light comedy about losing emotional baggage and finding love in upper Manhattan.
  11. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    50
    The Treatment gets this year's Rip van Winkle award.
  12. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Anthony Lane
    50
    A slight and rueful affair, intermittently funny.
  13. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    40
    A movie with its heart and head in the right place. Too bad its aesthetic sensibilities and technical coordinates are not as well situated.
  14. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    25
    A wan effort at "Annie Hall"-style comedy, has about as much Manhattan sophistication as a gas station in Chippewa Falls, Wis.

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