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A Beautiful Mind (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 176
Fresh: 137
Rotten:39
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Consensus: The well-acted A Beautiful Mind is both a moving love story and a revealing look at mental illness.
Theatrical Release: Dec 21, 2001 Limited
Box Office: $170,708,996
Synopsis: Director Ron Howard delivers his finest effort with his extraordinary film, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2001. Based loosely on Sylvia Nasar's acclaimed biography of mathematician John Forbes Nash,... [More]
Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Adam Goldberg
Director: Ron Howard
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Reviews for A Beautiful Mind
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07/10/02
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Top Critic Consistently engrossing as an unusual character study and as a trip to the mysterious border-crossing between rarified brilliance and madness.
01/28/08
Top Critic I can't deny how solidly it's crafted, how well-acted, and, wonder of wonders, how intelligently written and directed.
07/23/07
Unfortunately, as the picture goes on, the haunting of Nash by figments of his troubled mind becomes a trifle simplistic.
02/06/07
Top Critic Director Ron Howard's deftness in suggesting the subjective experience of Crowe's character, who's later diagnosed with schizophrenia, makes for inspirational narrative, but certain plot points are so reductive.
02/06/07
Despite serious omissions from Nash's real-life (homosexuality, anti-Semitism), Ron Howard's middlebrow treament of the subject makes for an enjoybale film largely due to the compelling performances of Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly.
01/26/07
If this were fiction, it would be an example of superior storytelling, and it's certainly gripping.
12/30/06
Top Critic A pedestrian film with a rudimentary script that forces the actors to create believability where there might otherwise be none.
12/27/06
At its most effective when it seems to lose the plot in a scrambled second act that posits the Cold War as a collective paranoid delusion, the film reverts to type (and to fact) for a sentimental anti-climax.
01/26/06
It presents itself as a biography of the flesh-and-blood John Nash. And in fact, it is really only a flashy, sentimental Hollywood movie, inspired by a few particular details of the John Nash story.
12/06/04
Crowe...disappears into the character just as he did when he played tobacco whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand in The Insider.
06/25/04
A tedious exercise in manipulation that once again proves Hollywood is short of vision.
02/01/04
... Crowe disappears into the role of John Nash and proves again that he is one of today's most versatile actors.
01/07/04
Exceptionally acted, smartly scripted, superbly directed -- a beautiful thing.
02/17/03
This film is a puzzlement in its inconsistency, especially coming from Ron Howard...Still, good performances abound.
02/08/03
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