Movie Review

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Jan 11, 2002

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

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EW's GRADE

B+

Details Release Date: Jan 04, 2002; Limited Release: Dec 21, 2001; Rated: PG-13; Length: 135 Minutes; Genres: Biopic, Drama; With: Jennifer Connelly and Russell Crowe; More

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Playing the brilliant real-life mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., who managed his schizophrenia well enough to eventually win a Nobel Prize, Russell Crowe summons a powerful depiction of mental illness with barely an eyelid flicker separating manifestations of sickness from utterly sane displays of creative concentration. A Beautiful Mind establishes the physical reality of Nash's world with such authority that we can taste the chalk dust on the blackboard. Jennifer Connelly plays Nash's wife; Ed Harris is a government agent who recruits the professor to break codes.

Originally posted Jan 11, 2002 Published in issue #634 Jan 11, 2002 Order article reprints

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