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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 22 Oct 2009

Though the role might seem a real stretch for an actor who just won an Oscar for his Charlton Heston turn as Maximus in Gladiator, he and the…

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By Mike Clark (1,024) for USA Today (4,117) on 25 Sep 2009

This is one inspiring movie despite extremely tricky subject matter -- better than Shine and among the most affecting ever made about co-existing…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for The New York Times (9,847) on 13 Mar 2009

The movie can -- indeed, should -- be intellectually rejected, but you can't quite banish it from your mind…

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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 25 Jan 2008

It's an absorbing, progressively unsettling and ultimately very inspiring biographical reflection that, in the interest of creating its subject's…

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By Jay Carr (837) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 30 Oct 2007

Crowe sometimes summons up one of the most powerful depictions of mental illness I have ever seen with barely an eyelid flicker separating…

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By Joe Lozito (463) for Big Picture Big Sound (482) on 13 Jul 2007

I particularly enjoyed the fact that Nash comes across as quite fallible in the film despite his attempts at perfection…

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By Philip French (1,151) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 06 Feb 2007

Unfortunately, as the picture goes on, the haunting of Nash by figments of his troubled mind becomes a trifle simplistic…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 29 Jan 2007

There is more to admire in A Beautiful Mind than you might suspect, but less than its creators believe…

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By Wesley Lovell (690) for Cinema Sight (678) on 27 Dec 2006

A pedestrian film with a rudimentary script that forces the actors to create believability where there might otherwise be none…

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By Jami Bernard (708) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 22 Dec 2006

This is another brilliant performance by Crowe, who is to body language what Meryl Streep is to accents…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 19 Nov 2006

Howard has never been so grown-up in his handling of tough themes or so inventive in depicting states of mind…

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By Tom Charity (192) for Time Out (7,510) on 26 Jan 2006

At its most effective when it seems to lose the plot in a scrambled second act that posits the Cold War as a collective paranoid delusion,…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Variety (12,700) on 06 Nov 2005

Consistently engrossing as an unusual character study and as a trip to the mysterious border-crossing between rarified brilliance and madness,…

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By Dennis Lim (218) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Aug 2005

It's doubly frustrating that after flirting with (and even upending) biopic conventions for much of its length, A Beautiful Mind finally gives…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for Slate (2,081) on 06 Feb 2005

As Nash gets closer to Crowe's own age (and level of dissipation), the performance settles down and becomes first credible and then overwhelming…

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By Charles Taylor (365) for Salon.com (2,725) on 01 Jan 2005

It's not just our emotions that are being played on here, it's not just our intelligence being insulted because of Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman's…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 Dec 2004

Crowe brings the character to life by sidestepping sensationalism and building with small behavioral details…

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By Mark Sells (183) for Oregon Herald (104) on 12 Aug 2004

In every facet, it should have an automatic date with Oscar…

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By Judith Egerton (151) for Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (151) on 24 Jun 2004

Crowe...disappears into the character just as he did when he played tobacco whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand in The Insider…

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By Charlie Brown (11) for FilmStew.com (638) on 01 Feb 2004

A tedious exercise in manipulation that once again proves Hollywood is short of vision…

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