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  Review by truman ★★★★ 4

  ugh, his mind

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  Review by jack ★★ 6

  Here’s an equation for ya:

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

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  Review by HamisH ★★★★★ 7

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

  I guess you could say Paul Bettany was

  
  a vision

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  Review by megan ★★★ 4

  his mind wasn’t even that beautiful

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  Review by amaya ★★

  jennifer connelly is beautiful alright. i'm not sure about his mind though

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  Review by Joe ★½ 5

  How's this for a problem without a solution: who gives a shit

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  Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★ 7

  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…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★

  Decided to give this another shot after reflexively dismissing it as a snobby kid and never thinking about it since. It's honestly not bad! Connelly and Crowe really successfully convert their mutual yet conflicting anxieties into some very effectively horrifying paranoia, and as schematic as it seems the schism of reality here is never really played for a twist. Hardly a work of great subtlety (hardly a great movie, period) but I would argue that A) It's not as unsubtle as that makes it sound and; B) Subtlety is frequently overvalued. Howard's over-hated; it's just not his fault that his sturdy carpentry birthed a thousand THEORYs OF EVERYTHING. My biggest complaint is that it spends almost no time at all on Nash's truly influential (and deleterious) game theory's contributions to US foreign policy and so on and so forth. That his work was both groundbreaking and terrible isn't touched on at all.

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  Review by travis k ★★ 5

  Almost offensive in its devotion to utter mediocrity. 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 years ago, after all. Less easy to forgive is…

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  Review by john ★★★½

  alright, i'll bite. russell crowe is kinda hot in this.

  i really enjoyed this one. it kind of drags towards the last thrity minutes, but other than that, the acting is pretty damn good. i know there are real world inaccuracies, but everything else manages to outweigh whatever those may be.

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  Review by Caleb ★½

  He do be doin math tho

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  Review by Deckk ★★★★ 3

  100-word review: Dating your student is not cool, but it's hard not to look past that when said student is played by Jennifer Connelly. A Beautiful Mind is Ron Howard's best, and by a long shot. The adjective in its title is the right adjective to describe the movie with. More sentimental than melodramatic (though admittedly not by much), A Beautiful Mind jerks those tears from my eyes — the 'pens' scene at the end, oh gawd. The rare biopic about a 'different than the rest' genius that's both affectionate and authentic; but not only that, it's also perplexing, tense, and even scary.