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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The DissolveMike D'AngeloThe DissolveMike D'AngeloDirector and co-writer Zack Parker (Scalene) combines a Hitchcockian penchant for disorientation with a Brian De Palma-esque formal bravado, and he’s made the rare film that’s impossible to peg all the way up to its final minutes—a truly unnerving study in multiple pathologies.
- 80Los Angeles TimesInkoo KangLos Angeles TimesInkoo KangWhatever 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.
- 75RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoParker has made a tough, brutal, and often riveting thriller.
- 60VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveySkirting 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.
- 60The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisEmploying scaled-down sets and low-budget audacity, Mr. Parker, an intelligent and boundary-testing filmmaker, proves less concerned with logic than with how far he can push his characters.
- 50Village VoiceMichael NordineVillage VoiceMichael NordineThough Proxy shows early signs of being worthy of that vaunted company, it's brought down by some truly wooden performances and an inability to turn its interesting spark of an idea into a workable story.
- 25Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenIt transforms itself from a meek lo-fi indie stalker thriller in the key of May to a hysterically sexist and homophobic revenge film.
- 25The PlaylistDrew TaylorThe PlaylistDrew TaylorWhat's interesting about Proxy is that it plays with all of the ephemera associated with pregnancy – the way that a person's psychology can warp around it – but too often gets bogged down in B-movie clichés and an unnecessarily convoluted narrative that strives for profundity but comes across as crass and dull.