A Beautiful Mind

2001 Directed by Ron Howard

He saw the world in a way no one could have imagined.

John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

Russell Crowe Ed Harris Jennifer Connelly Christopher Plummer Paul Bettany Adam Goldberg Josh Lucas Anthony Rapp Jason Gray-Stanford Judd Hirsch Austin Pendleton Vivien Cardone Jillie Simon Victor Steinbach Tanya Clarke Thomas F. Walsh Jesse Doran Kent Cassella Patrick Blindauer John Blaylock Roy Thinnes Anthony Easton Cheryl Howard Josh Pais David B. Allen Michael Esper Erik Van Wyck Rance Howard Jane Jenkins Show All…

Alternative Titles

Una mente brillante, Красив ум, Uma Mente Brilhante, Un homme d'exception, Čistá duše, Una mente maravillosa, Ένας Υπέροχος Άνθρωπος, Egy csodálatos elme, Игры разума, Čudoviti um, 美麗心靈, Beautiful Mind, A

romance drama

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Review by truman ★★★★ 3

ugh, his mind
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★½ 8

me: if you can’t give two or three hours of your time to watch what took hundreds of people YEARS to conceive and execute then u can’t call yourself a cinephile!

me stumbling away from this 2h15 movie: i feel......centuries older.....all stories can be told in 90 minutes.......or dare i say LESS...
Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★ 6

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

"So what am I now, a spy?"
Not only did I manage not to have this movie spoiled for me, but despite it being a favorite of my father's and girlfriend's I managed to block out the knowledge that there was even anything to spoil about it. Before the movie started my dad even said something along the lines of, "It's never the same as the first time you see it." Thank you, brain, for selectively understanding the world around me.
There's a section of this movie which is absolutely terrifying to me, more than any horror movie I've ever seen. A Beautiful Mind plays out the idea that you can't think your way out of mental illness. There's a…
Review by CinemaClown ★★★★

Winner of 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is an expertly crafted biopic based on the life of schizophrenic mathematician John Nash & covers his struggle with his condition. Although the artistic license taken here makes it far more cinematic than required, the film nonetheless succeeds as a touching, entertaining & satisfying experience.
Based on the novel of the same name, the story of A Beautiful Mind begins in 1947 when the young John Nash arrives at Princeton University. Eccentric but brilliant, Nash graduates with flying colours, is hired by MIT but begins exhibiting troubling symptoms of a mental illness which in the long run affects not only his personal & professional life but also those around him.
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Review by jack ★★

Here’s an equation for ya:

male gaze + runtime exceeding 2 hours + slightly brown tinted colour grading = Academy Award for Best Picture, 2001
Review by Joe ★½ 2

How's this for a problem without a solution: who gives a shit
Review by travis kyker ★★ 5

To put it simply, this film is almost offensive in its devotion to utter mediocrity. This is quite possibly the most award-bait film I’ve seen since The King’s Speech: the cinematography casts every image under a false haze of soft sentimentality; the camera has the patience of a two-year-old, constantly sweeping in an erratic ballet of meaningless motion; the sickly-sweet score drips and oozes over every moment, wrenching emotion out of you with the elegant nuance of a bison; and Russel Crowe hams it up big time, shuffling and twitching and drooling his way into the embrace of that little golden man. I don’t know whether he ended up winning, nor do I much care—A Beautiful Mind released almost twenty…
Review by megan ★★★ 3

his mind wasn’t even that beautiful
Review by amaya ★★

jennifer connelly is beautiful alright. i'm not sure about his mind though
Review by Ronnie Lewis ★★½ 2

So boring. With movies like this, the real story is always better than what makes it on screen. What really bugs me about this movie is it's esseya real life version of The Sixth Sense, but that movie does it so much better. There's not any real rules that are followed here. Paul Bettany has a door opened for him and then 20 minutes later Ed Harris closes a door as he pushes Russell Crowe into a room. Speaking of Crowe, I'm pretty sure he got his best Acting nomination because he was on a hot streak and was appearing in a prestigious film, because this is a pretty bad performance. Its not natural at all, you're very aware of the performance and it's almost old-timey like Clark Gable in the 50's. Also this movie is super white. Jennifer Connelly is playing an El Salvadorian woman. It's a good performance, but...
Review by Scott Anderson ★★★½ 5

I find the concept of expectations and whether or not they are met to be fascinating, especially in regards to film criticism. Last night I finally saw the 2002 Best Picture winner A Beautiful Mind for the first time, a mere 12 years after its release, and without a doubt it is a very good film, one that was elevated to that level through pretty great performances throughout but especially from the two leads. Russell Crowe is John Forbes Nash Jr. and Jennifer Connelly is Alicia, a student in his class that stuns Nash not just with her beauty but also the bold move she makes to solve a noise/temperature problem on his first day as her teacher. I truly…
Review by London ★★★½

Ranking the Oscars Best Pictures
There is a turning point in A Beautiful Mind. If you have seen it or know anything about its subject matter you know the point I am speaking of. At that point the film goes from being a pretty average movie, and then flips it on its head and becomes undeniably great.
The second half of this film is full of brilliant performances, not just from Crowe but also an especially harrowing performance by Connelly in one scene in particular. The script gets better, the shots get better, and the tension builds incredibly well.
The lead up to these events is disappointing to say the least. It really seems like two seperate movies were made,…

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Review by FilmMasterJack

A fantastic but depressing film, although the way the film depicts mental illness is extremely powerful and the film itself is just so, so engaging. Crowe is exceptional here and you can't help but be completely absorbed by his performance here. Terrific film.
Review by DrThrax ★★★★½

Beautiful movie describing the events of Mathematician John Nash which albeit not completely accurate but it's a movie you can't expect everything to be 100% accurate, Exceptional acting by Russell crowe (who was robbed of an oscar for this movie), Jennifer connelly, Ed harris, Paul bettany etc who all did great performances in this movie. Overall i think this is a great movie describing John Nash and his troubles with schizophrenia
Review by lockdowncinema ★★★★½

This Oscar-winning movie sees the perfect blend of psychological thriller, drama and romance.
It is incredibly moving and thought-provoking and viewers have a consensus that it is an accurate depiction of mental illness.
I’m not the biggest fan of Russell Crowe, but this showed he had a lot more range than I once thought. He really made me believe in his character, John Nash.
Watch this if you haven’t seen it already, it will not disappoint.
Review by arlosanchez ★★★

The girl running around the pigeons? One of the best twist hints I've ever seen.
Review by Kacey Bange ★★½

I started watching this movie a year ago, in 2018, got like 40 minutes in before something came up and I had to leave and I was like, “I will finish this later.” Later turned out to be basically a full calendar year. I had to restart from the beginning. To say this movie didn’t grip me ... well, for the record, I almost stopped again to take a nap, but I didn’t want to have to watch the first forty minutes a third time.
Review by nomis94 ★★★★★

A must-see, no matter what you say
This is such a perfect and excellent movie. The acting and the writing are on point here. Props to the producers and writers, this is a gem! It will always be my favorite movie of all time! If you're into dramas and well-written biographies, this might be a movie for you. If not, watch it anyways.
Review by Nayanmoni ★★★★

We can relate her mind from second half of the movie ; She is really kind hearted, her mind is beautiful.
Review by José Cueto ★★★★

8/10.
Review by Rinsha ★★★

The first half of the movie was kind of boring ...but after a point the movie just turns around where u will find its becoming interesting. The acting was superb... especially Russel Crowe, he just loved the character!
Review by J D ★★★★

A friend of mine who is a psychology major made us watch this film back in college saying it is beautiful! And it definitely is. As someone who wasn’t familiar back then of complex mental illnesses this help me understand how people who have these illnesses cope with these conditions. It made me watch more films that depict different kinds of mental illnesses people experienced.
Review by Varun ★★★½

Crowe deserved an Academy Award for his performance! Connelly was outstanding!
Overall, I liked the film for the most part. Awesome Cinematography, brilliant background score, but I just felt like this moviw could've been wrapped in 100 minutes. Wish the film actually stuck to it's plot and not take a totally different direction.
Overall, it's still a brilliant film.
Review by Ronnie Lewis ★★½ 2

So boring. With movies like this, the real story is always better than what makes it on screen. What really bugs me about this movie is it's esseya real life version of The Sixth Sense, but that movie does it so much better. There's not any real rules that are followed here. Paul Bettany has a door opened for him and then 20 minutes later Ed Harris closes a door as he pushes Russell Crowe into a room. Speaking of Crowe, I'm pretty sure he got his best Acting nomination because he was on a hot streak and was appearing in a prestigious film, because this is a pretty bad performance. Its not natural at all, you're very aware of the performance and it's almost old-timey like Clark Gable in the 50's. Also this movie is super white. Jennifer Connelly is playing an El Salvadorian woman. It's a good performance, but...