An unlovely film about an unlovely group of people.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 3, 2020

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

| Jan 17, 2018

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

| Sep 26, 2017

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.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 25, 2011

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

| Aug 20, 2010

Timid staging faithful adaptation = no cinema

| Sep 1, 2009

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.

Full Review | Nov 25, 2006

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| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 3, 2006

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2006

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 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.

| Mar 17, 2006

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2006

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

| Mar 10, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2006

Smart, well-acted, and wonderfully directed.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 24, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 19, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 11, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 10, 2006

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

| Original Score: 6/10 | 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.

| Feb 9, 2006