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The handsome and arrogant John Forbes Nash Jr. found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery.
5 June 1943, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
8 July 1978, Tennessee, USA
31 August 1940, Orange, New Jersey, USA
23 January 1955, Manhattan, New York, USA
20 June 1971, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
20 February 1980, Hollywood, California, USA
30 November 1947, Bronx, New York, USA
12 December 1970, Catskill Mountains, New York, USA
13 December 1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
6 April 1938, Chicago, Illinois, USA
17 November 1928, Oklahoma, USA
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.
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.
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.
October 21, 2014
Crowe's interpretation of this tortured genius is textured and complex.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
