Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

GeoPierpont Big day for race fans kids! Gwenneth has to figure out how to act like a genius that is humble, absolutely gorgeous but not worthy of any praise, kinda like downplaying how stunning beautiful you are on screen and be coquetish, clueless and alarmingly charming. Do you need an advanced degree in Physics or Chemistry to appreciate the spectacular fireworks that unfold in the genius that is Anthony Hopkins? No sirree, all you have to do is suspend your belief that true brilliance is an aberration fraught with instability, self adulation and insanity and you're halfway home. Hard to keep count of all the hotties in the Math department, well maybe the Computer Science geeks could eek out a dashing formidable run for the money? Those of us who crave real conversation and a spark of life among the shadows will once again fall into despair believing no one in Hollywood will ever serve to educate, inspire, let alone entertain those whoe have a titch more than a room temp IQ. But for those of us who comprehend that Math is theee language of love will continue to foray for those minute details, subtle hints and secret code words to elucidate a modicum of spark, ignition and fire! I look forward to the stage play that hones it all in for our conspicous consumption and well deserved applause. I could barely finish this film it was too cooked, brittle, albeit more of a showcase for known talent. And who deals with Differential Equation concepts in Grad School, sheesh that's thrid grade material!

andy-getsu Proof is interesting in what it says about genius, my point being not so much about the borders between genius and madness, but about the burdens that genius Lays on those around it, about the how the lives of others are left in the shadows behind the brilliance of a creative genius. Paltrow's Claire is most of the story, as she has been her mad father's caretaker, and has put aside her own ambitions. Now, it emerges that she has accomplished a proof which is a grail or philosopher's stone, which everyone would have expected from her father but not from her. She doesn't straightforwardly present it, and when she identifies it as hers, she immediately gets treated to disbelief and contempt that she has tried to claim this last triumph of her father's fire herself. Her sister sees her father's life and accomplishments as something to be escaped from and does her best to physically drag Claire away from Chicago and father's Hyde Park home, and is incapable of comprehending Claire's desire to remain. Claire however is bound up in the legacy of her father's genius and her proof is certainly a tribute to that, but she feels diminished that because she put aside her own career to care for her father that no one will respect that the proof is her work and not her father's.I suspect that Gwyneth, like Emma Watson as Hermione in Harry Potter, is a lot prettier than the author had in mind for that character, and we may have difficulty feeling the depressed Claire with what a pretty girl we know Gwyneth to be, and at odd moments we realize that we might perceive a scene differently if Gwyneth were not a beautiful woman, but that's not to say fails to play her role brilliantly throughout. I wrote this review after I saw on her IMDb bio: it seems that Pepper Potts, feisty, but still essentially arm candy, from Ironman, is her greatest acting triumph since Shakespeare in Love.On the production side, I'm disappointed to see Proof didn't gross over $8 million, but I can't really imagine how it cost $20 million to make. Most of the story takes place inside a pretty typical Chicago bungalow, and other very ordinary locations. There's no effects. Even if it's hard to imagine it having cost $2o million and you'd like to see Gwyneth Paltrow in a weightier role than as Ironman's arm candy, look in on Proof. This movie deserves more attention.

thefadingcam Proof is a traditional narrative oriented movie about the daughter of a brilliant mathematician that is mentally ill. After his death, the daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow), begins being obsessed by the possibility that she inherited that mental illness. Proof is a very competent movie. Very well written, very well acted and with a very relevant plot. It's hard to criticize Proof because it doesn't fall on the temptation of forcing you to feel compassion for its characters. Even if the plot is a bit manipulated (it is a movie), the characters feel very real, along with their personal issues, which are unpretentiously presented to the audience. Great cast, very well done, mysterious, a delight until the end. Visit thefadingcam blog for more!

Don Muvo Gwyneth Paltrow was great, Anthony Hopkins in this supporting role was almost perfect, although he looked too old for the part (63 years), and this may be Jake Gyllenhaal's best movie. The product is ruined through being over-dominated by flashbacks, and by rushing the relationship between the two main characters.The story is designed to put you into the position of the boyfriend, Hal: You are supposed to believe as he does, that the professor, being an icon, towered over the current generation, and would always do so. This in order to set you up in believing that the boyfriend would be pushed into asserting at the crucial plot moment that the breakthrough paper Catherine (Paltrow) gave him to read was probably the work of her father, the Professor and not hers, and that her claiming it, was stealing it.This is the setup for a number of memorable scenes of hysteria for Gwenneth Paltrow. It's true that after starting her graduate work, she sacrificed years of her life to take care of her debilitated father. If taken out of the context of the sister Claire's sudden takeover of her life, the plot would all make sense, but because her design is to remove Catherine from Chicago to New York, in a "soft" wicked witch act, Gwynneth decides to play sick in order to play along and avoid the shame of having hooked up with someone that could disabuse you of your best work the morning after.This is where the weakest moment of the film comes. The characters are all weakened at this point of the plot, and they can never recover. It is now Paltrow's job to look as weak and abused as possible for the rest of the film, barring a couple of seconds in the flashbacks. The dominating obsessive sister from New York must have one more scene, to finally overcome Paltrow's last attempt at personal integrity. Finally the audience is invited, through flashbacks, to sympathize with the dying, demented professor, as he attempts to convince his daughter that he is getting his intellectual mojo back again. All of this is syrup, until we arrive at the moment of truth, when Catherine must literally run from the airport, desperately attempting to find Gyllenhaal on campus, since she is now alone, with no other friends, locked out of her former house by her sister, who has already completed checking her off of her "todo" list. Simply setting up this moment with a stronger relationship to Harold would have sufficed to save the movie. Instead we get one flashback with Hopkins as a teaser after another, many with duplicated footage. What really makes me angry, is thinking that it could be possible that the footage that might make this film hold together could have been shot, but was eliminated in order to get more minutes of Anthony Hopkins onto the screen.