Film

Therapy Done Right

Name: Therapy Done Right
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2026
Cast: Ricardo Darín, Diego Peretti, Inés Efrón, Carlos Santamaría, Miriam Odorico

Dark comedy

A Buenos Aires psychoanalyst abandons the rulebook to save a creatively paralyzed novelist in this Argentine dark comedy. Sharp, funny, and genuinely warm about human mess, it finds comedy in the wreckage of two lives colliding—professional ethics versus real connection. For anyone tired of neat resolutions.

TMDb rating

3.8

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you enjoy comedy that gets uncomfortable fast, where a bad idea feels funny right up until the room goes quiet, and you like Argentine films that treat ethics as a running joke.

Skip it if you want therapy drama that stays earnest and gentle, since this one treats the couch as a battleground and rarely lets the room feel safe.

What it asks of you: Ninety-seven minutes, mostly in close quarters, with dialogue doing the heavy lifting; it rewards steady attention to who is manipulating whom and tolerates discomfort rather than easing it.

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