A Beautiful Mind
The handsome and arrogant John Forbes Nash Jr. found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery.
19 May 1970, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1 April 1973, Ithaca, New York, USA
31 August 1940, Orange, New Jersey, USA
15 August 1980, Woodbury, New Jersey, USA
1 September 1955, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
30 November 1947, Bronx, New York, USA
29 July 1970, Brooklyn, New York, USA
28 November 1950, Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
8 July 1978, Tennessee, USA
28 November 1967, Brooklyn, New York, USA
25 October 1970, Santa Monica, California, USA
15 March 1935, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
1 December 1976, New York, New York, USA
October 21, 2014
The second, idealised, sentimentalised half of the film is torture, as we plod through the routine I'm-here-to-help psychiatrist, the walls plastered with cut-up newspapers and the what-happens-when-he-stops-taking-the-medicine stuff.
February 04, 2014
A Beautiful Mind is Howard's best movie, and easily one of the best movies of the year.
February 24, 2013
It isn't the device that's so crude, but the execution, which turns Nash's persecutory demons into nuisances that won't leave us alone.
October 21, 2014
The story also comes up with a clever way for Nash to fight his problem: He uses his mind. His illness is a puzzle, after all, and he's good at figuring out puzzles. You'll root for him.
October 21, 2014
Crowe is called upon to do not much more than stare solicitously at the heavens, from where inspiration duly arrives, to the accompaniment of some predictably celestial music.
October 21, 2014
Crowe's interpretation of this tortured genius is textured and complex.
February 04, 2014
It's not a crime for the script to gloss over the thornier aspects of Nash's story, but the film seems totally unconvincing, squeezing a real life into a formula that's simultaneously more palatable and less interesting.
October 21, 2014
You're well into the story before you can sift the facts from the hallucinations, a process that's made compelling by Russell Crowe's performance in the lead.
February 04, 2014
A Beautiful Mind is the best film yet from director Howard.
February 04, 2014
Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman's clever solution is to turn the story of a troubled academic into a Hollywood thriller. How? He makes things up.
October 21, 2014
Despite problems of structure and tone, and some crucial omissions from Nash's actual life, A Beautiful Mind has emerged as one of the season's most enjoyable and popular films.
February 04, 2014
The result is one of the most successful attempts to make math look sexy, even if the movie strays - gallops, really - from the details of the actual life of Nobel Prize-winner John Forbes Nash Jr.
