PJ Nabarro Patrick Nabarro Jun 3, 2020 1/5

An unlovely film about an unlovely group of people.

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Zadie Smith Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 17, 2018

It's that breed of verbal swordplay that so impresses on stage while seeming so redundant and brittle on screen.

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Victoria Segal New Statesman Sep 26, 2017

... Proof seems like no more than a fraction of a cinematic experience, a string of emotional calculations that fails to provide a satisfying solution.

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Joshua Starnes ComingSoon.net Apr 25, 2011 5/10

Proof is a smart film, but it tries too hard. It wears its heart on its sleeve, and the pathos becomes a bit much because there is little to balance it out.

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Aug 20, 2010

A limp, and utterly pointless melodrama that's never as intelligent as it thinks.

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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Sep 1, 2009

Timid staging faithful adaptation = no cinema

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Scott Tobias AV Club Nov 25, 2006

Madden stages the action with a minimum of imagination and gets a career-worst performance out of Davis in a key role, but the material still sputters to life on the strength of the writing and Paltrow's commitment to the part.

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Joseph Proimakis Movies for the Masses Oct 3, 2006 2.5/5

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Peter T. Chattaway Christianity Today Sep 27, 2006 3/4

As a story about personal and family dysfunction, and about coming to terms with life's uncertainties, Proof isn't bad.

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Anna Smith Empire Magazine Apr 1, 2006 3/5

A subtle, slow-burning mystery that does justice to its themes of identity, sanity and sacrifice.

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Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald Mar 17, 2006

An elegant adaptation to the screen, with the play's qualities largely intact and great performances from Paltrow and Hope Davis, as her sister. Jake Gyllenhaal and Anthony Hopkins complete a dream cast.

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Harry Guerin RTÉ (Ireland) Mar 15, 2006 3/5

Proof is something of a puzzle, an all-star drama that has the feel of a Sunday afternoon film. Think curiosity, not must see.

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Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile Mar 10, 2006

Intense and compelling, Proof is an absorbing film that shows the intricacies of the human mind are as complex as a mathematical equation.

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Joe Utichi FilmFocus Mar 4, 2006 3/5

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Forrest Hartman Reno Gazette-Journal Feb 24, 2006 3.5/4

Smart, well-acted, and wonderfully directed.

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Kevin Carr 7M Pictures Feb 19, 2006 2.5/5

Sure, the play won the Pulitzer Prize, but that doesn't mean it makes a great film, in my opinion. Maybe it just works better on the stage.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Feb 11, 2006 1/4

We are invited to believe that Hopkins, Paltrow and Gyllenhaal all have, in their various ways, alpha-brains. They look to me like they couldn't recite the three-times-table without smoke coming out of their ears.

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David Edwards Daily Mirror (UK) Feb 10, 2006 3/5

Paltrow stars as a woman who may or may not be around the twist. Having named her real-life child after a piece of fruit, that's what I call inspired casting.

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John J. Puccio Movie Metropolis Feb 9, 2006 6/10

...the story reveals a lot less substance than there appears to be.

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Wally Hammond Time Out Feb 9, 2006

Sadly, the impact of the clever parallelogram of emotional and philosophical concerns in Auburn and Rebecca Miller's screenplay is deadened by the director's overly literal -- mechanical -- cinematic interpretation.

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