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Reviews Counted:130
Fresh:82
Rotten:48
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins give exceptional performances in a film that intelligently tackles the territory between madness and genius.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Gwyneth Paltrow, who won an Oscar for her performance in director John Madden's SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, teams up again with Madden in PROOF, a poignant drama based on David Auburn's Pulitzer... [More]
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hope Davis
Director: John Madden, James D. Stern
While scrupulously intelligent, literate, and sardonically funny, John Madden's reportedly faithful adaptation of David Auburn's Broadway hit never quite breaks free enough of its theatrical origins to feel like a bona fide film.
Proof is like its own page of badly done math homework. It shows all work, all right. But it feels cribbed from an answer sheet. And it never proves a thing.
PROOF will put a lot of viewers right back where they left off in 12th-grade calculus: asleep.
Too much of this adaptation of David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play feels static, staged and largely unbelievable.
Although she tends to get actressy in her work, Paltrow's Catherine is a believable portrait of loss and grief.
When it counts, Proof wins points for subtlety and keeping its answers closer to the chest.
Top CriticThe freedom film affords has allowed Auburn and co-writer Rebecca Miller (The Ballad of Jack and Rose) to open up the material and, remarkably, deepen it, adding a layer of pathos to Catherine's angst.
Proof proves you can watch a flick about depressed, schizophrenic people concocting complicated math equations and still enjoy it. I swear!
Presents a knot of questions, twisted up inside a knot of delicate performances and a fragmented narrative.
Hits the mark as an exploration of a woman who gives away her gold to others and must find a way to acknowledge her own genius.
..hasn't shaken the feel of its floorboards, [but Auburn's] characters still come alive with complex relationships that hang in the balance of every exchange of his words.
You leave the theater appreciative of the movie’s dramatic yield, but not truly swept up in reverie. The way most of us feel about middle and high school math, I guess.
A cozy, middlebrow production putting an acting spotlight on Paltrow, surrounded by an unchallenged Hopkins and Jake Gyllenhaal as a liberating love-interest spirit.
Proof is a very emotional and engaging movie almost all the way through, but it loses it at the end.
Aided immeasurably by Paltrow's ace performance, it's the poignantly-felt human drama and delicate relationships in Proof that make the film a worthwhile experience.
[Paltrow's] is a performance that redeems everything else about this film, and allows for the hope that there will be many more to come in this gifted actress' career.
Top CriticIts themes of trust, the depth of filial responsibility and concerns about genetic inheritances are explored with depth and intelligence.
Something went terribly wrong here and one of the fine theatrical experiences of recent years turns into celluloid dross.
Gwyneth Paltrow plays the daughter of a famous dead mathematician in John Maddens terribly serious film adaptation of the much-admired Broadway play.
Top CriticProof, the movie, is alive and sulking.
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