Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh Sep 20, 2023 3/5

The melodrama can often be laughable, and while it's ultimately entertaining, it struggles with its own identity and what type of movie it wants to be.

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Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Aug 30, 2019 2.5/5

At times tasteless and potentially offensive, the film is also strikingly unpredictable, utilizing violence effectively.

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Frank Ochieng SF Crowsnest Nov 10, 2018 2.5/4

Parker's slow burn and chilly-minded Proxy is an intensifying horror vehicle that sneaks up on one's nervous system with its observational dark character studies and creepy tension that builds gradually while creating an understated complexity of fear.

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Deirdre Crimmins Film Thrills Aug 21, 2018

Even with these flaws, Proxy is a fascinating film.

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Jared Mobarak The Film Stage Mar 7, 2016 C-

The film is overly long, has its vantage point changed too often, and proves more confusing than entertaining.

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Margot Harrison Seven Days (VT) Feb 4, 2015 8/10

The movie has the kind of psychological plausibility that a fever dream does, the kind Blue Velvet does.

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Matt Donato We Got This Covered May 7, 2014 5/10

Proxy is too many conflicting movies crammed into a daunting 2 hour run time. Zack Parker juggles too many plates at once, and they all come crashing down simultaneously.

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed May 5, 2014

It seems director Parker could well have made his point and maintained his dramatic impact without creating such a sadistic streak that emanates through the narrative.

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Drew Taylor The Playlist Apr 25, 2014 D

By the end of the movie's two hour plus (!) runtime, writer/director Zack Parker seems to be saying one thing, over and over and over again: women be crazy.

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Maitland McDonagh Film Journal International Apr 18, 2014

Director/co-writer Zack Parker's second feature is more ambitious and subtle than it first appears

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Jordan Hoffman New York Daily News Apr 18, 2014 1/5

[With] performances better suited to a high school play

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Brian Tallerico RogerEbert.com Apr 18, 2014 3/4

Parker has made a tough, brutal, and often riveting thriller.

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Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times Apr 17, 2014

When almost everyone on screen is nursing a pathology, interest in their fates is far from guaranteed.

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Inkoo Kang Los Angeles Times Apr 17, 2014

Whatever "Proxy" lacks in narrative cohesion and psychological realism, it makes up for in its compelling fever-dream quality and its probing questions about the darker side of parenting.

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Mike D'Angelo The Dissolve Apr 17, 2014 4.0/5

Low-budget genre pictures as bold and ambitious as Proxy don't come around often; even when they do, few of them boast execution that's as accomplished as the concept.

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A.A. Dowd AV Club Apr 17, 2014 B-

Proxy's greatest attribute is its deliberate dismantling of the audience's assumptions. Writer-director Zack Parker has made a genre whatsit whose central mystery lies in the stealth motivations of its characters.

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Michael Nordine Village Voice Apr 16, 2014

Like a lot of conspiracy thrillers, the questions it raises prove more compelling than the answers it slowly teases out.

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Keith Uhlich Time Out Apr 15, 2014 3/5

There's enough talent here to suggest that Parker could one day give us a truly memorable white-knuckler, but Proxy is too tenderfooted to stand on its own.

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Dennis Harvey Variety Apr 15, 2014

Skirting horror and black-comedy terrain without quite surrendering to either, the pic proves rather bracing even if it doesn't hold up to much plot-logic scrutiny.

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Eric Kohn IndieWire Apr 15, 2014 B

"Proxy" doesn't always work, but its commitment to unpredictable twists and pushing beyond morbid extremes bears the stamp of showmanship sorely lacking from many other examples of the genre.

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