Proxima is a strong character study that benefits from a more human depiction of an astronaut than the genre usually allows, bolstered by the great Eva Green.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2024

Winocour’s script is sensitive and empathetic, inspired by Winocour’s relationship with her own young daughter.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2024

the film is a quiet, understated film that is more about a woman chasing a dream and trying to be a good mother than it is about science fiction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Proxima is thoughtful and beautifully crafted top-tier film-making.

| Mar 8, 2023

While Proxima celebrates that continued desire to reach for the stars, it is its human connection that ensures the mission’s success.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 11, 2022

Astronauts both male and female have been ... leaving their families behind to strap themselves to rockets bound for outerspace. But Winocour makes the argument — amid extremely detailed documentary-esque preparations — that it’s harder for women.

| Aug 17, 2022

Winocour's film as a whole creates a haunting, palpable dread that women of all backgrounds experience as they step out of the patriarchal boxes we are ever-expected to keep ourselves to, regardless of our supposed liberation.

| Dec 2, 2021

Winocour avoids familiar pitfalls of similar sci-fi tales to focus on the human drama in a way that feels palpably real.

| Dec 2, 2021

A compelling and thought-provoking film about how women in elite occupations still face double standards when it comes to work-life balance.

| Dec 2, 2021

Eva Green gives an absolutely stellar performance in Alice Winocour's exceptional film.

| Dec 2, 2021

With both her well-observed script and her careful direction, Winocour crafts a story that lingers like fading starlight.

| Dec 2, 2021

Proxima is a companion piece to Ad Astra, both using journeys to space as a metaphor to examine the conflicting responsibilities of work and family and the longing for connection.

| Dec 2, 2021

Proxima doesn't deliver the exhilaration of some other space movies - indeed we barely get beyond lift-off here - but the film's earthbound drama is just as absorbing in its own way.

| Sep 2, 2021

An impressively crafted space-drama about female sacrifice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2021

As a whole, Proxima offers no conception of Green's character beyond the roles of "mother" and "astronaut." It's a film of marked incuriosity.

| Jun 5, 2021

Featuring an intimate, truly heartfelt performance by Eva Green, the film tackles issues of abandonment, desire, and a really understated look at how motherly love can never be put to words

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2021

Even as Proxima remains grounded on earth for its runtime, its philosophical engagement with the ruptures of existentialism leave it feeling like something celestial.

| May 10, 2021

We're seeing a miniature genre emerge, one involving women overcoming horrendous struggles in order to reach the cosmos. Of these (including 'Lucy in the Sky' and 'Gravity') 'Proxima' is the most down-to-Earth.

| Apr 22, 2021

Proxima is a thoughtful and engrossing drama featuring an open, honest and possibly revelatory performance by Green.

| Mar 11, 2021

Alice Winocour's Proxima is a poignant tribute to a mother's resilience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2020