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A Beautiful Mind
After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
28 November 1967, Brooklyn, New York, USA
14 April 1993, Port Jefferson, New York, USA
11 November 1937, Pikeville, Kentucky, USA
2 February 1972, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 April 1980, Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA
3 August 1979, The Bronx, New York, USA
February 04, 2014
A Beautiful Mind is the best film yet from director Howard.
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.
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
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 Howard's best movie, and easily one of the best movies of the year.
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.
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
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
Crowe's interpretation of this tortured genius is textured and complex.
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.