A typical Oscars movie. Solid, middle-brow and worthy.
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02/20/08
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.
Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins
Genre: Dramas
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... [More]
Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Adam Goldberg
Director: Ron Howard
Reviews for A Beautiful Mind
Top CriticUnfortunately, as the picture goes on, the haunting of Nash by figments of his troubled mind becomes a trifle simplistic.
02/06/07
Top CriticIf this were fiction, it would be an example of superior storytelling, and it's certainly gripping.
12/30/06
Top CriticAt 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
Top CriticWell-made film with some deservedly Oscar-nominated performances -- it takes some shocking liberties with its subject matter but remains engaging and enjoyable throughout.
10/30/02
This is a lovely film, crafted with attention to detail and assembled with real skill.
06/20/02
I really wish the last third had been less sketchy, because before it the movie had seemed to be building to greatness
03/10/02
[A] plodding, pedestrian hagiography.
03/03/02
Top CriticWho'd have thought algebra could be so exciting?
01/26/02
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04/29/09
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 CriticI can't deny how solidly it's crafted, how well-acted, and, wonder of wonders, how intelligently written and directed.
07/23/07
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07/14/07
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
A pedestrian film with a rudimentary script that forces the actors to create believability where there might otherwise be none.
12/27/06
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
In every facet, it should have an automatic date with Oscar.
08/13/04
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
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