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OFCS Rating: 79% Fresh |
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| "As John Nash, Russell Crowe projects the 'warts-and-all' persona of a genius trying to conquer mental illness. But I can't help reacting negatively to most biopics. I never know what's real and what's made-up -- kinda like Nash himself." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Betty Jo Tucker |
5/5 | "Through enormously convincing performances, a masterful screenplay, and aggressive direction, this movie takes us on an extraordinary journey into the mind of a fascinating character." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Blake French |
5/5 | "It’s a performance that’s not just great; it’s amazing." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
3.5/4 | "A Beautiful Mind is one hell of a movie." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
C+ | "Ron Howard trashes the true story of the mentally troubled Nobel Prize-winning mathematician genius John Forbes Nash Jr. ..." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
2/4 | "A frequently disappointing cut-and-paste job...it fails to find any sort of smooth rhythm or dramatic arc." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
1/4 | "A Beautiful Mind is like a brick to the head to anyone who ever winced at the utterance of "infinity plus one."" |
| Slant Magazine |
| Ed Gonzalez |
B+ | "It's crisp and well-organized and thoughtful." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
3.5/4 | "All the pieces are there and Ron Howard fits them all together as if playing the perfect game of Go." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B- | "Neither aesthetically pleasing ... nor intelligent." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
4/4 | "Here's hoping that the Academy Awards recognize this articulate, intensely entertaining gem. A Beautiful Mind would indeed be a terrible thing to waste." |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
A- | "It's not only intelligently conceived and smoothly crafted, but also
manages be be emotionally resonant without degenerating into
mawkishness." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
| "Ron Howard as director has fashioned a drama about the slow hatching of Nash's heart." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
3.5/4 | "A beautifully written, effectively acted, and meticulously crafted effort." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3.5/4 | "an engaging, rousing, well-made film about a brilliant man whose life was almost completely devastated by mental illness" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
3/4 | "Ron Howard's relentlessly sunny direction is an unusual fit for this often fascinating portrayal of one of our century's great math minds." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
8/10 | "Formula Hollywood at the top of its form." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
D | "Howard softens the hard edge of real schizophrenia with movie gloss as cotton candy, shaping the troubled history of mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr. into feel good escapism." |
| Matinee Magazine |
| Jeremiah Kipp |
2.5/4 | "Pedantic and sophistic." |
| MovieMartyr.com |
| Jeremy Heilman |
| "A compelling tale with some terrific and touching individual moments, just the right directorial touch, and what's arguably the best performance of the year." |
| Screen It! |
| Jim Judy |
9/10 | "Inspirational to be sure, tightly-wound and secure with outstanding performances, this film is likely to please audiences all over the place." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
C- | "Howard’s sappy movie covers some of the material, but is far more concerned with box office and Oscar glory." |
| Old School Reviews |
| John A. Nesbit |
$8 | "A positively entertaining and extremely complex drama about the effects of mental illness." |
| Light Views |
| John Larsen |
7/10 | "[Crowe's performance is] still one of the better roles you'll see all year and seems a shoo-in for a Hanks-like third nomination in a row." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
3.5/4 | "Emotiva, personal y entrañable, es un triunfo en todos sentidos." |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
2.5 | "The preview is misleading, but as a drama of a man’s pretty interesting life, it is somewhat pleasing." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
2.5/4 | "Crowe's performance alone is worth the admission price." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
A | "The best action film of the year." |
| Countingdown.com |
| Larry Carroll |
A | "How ironic that Russell Crowe won his Oscar last year for "Gladiator"" |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
9/10 | "Russell Crowe, el Gladiador de la pantalla ofrece sin lugar a dudas, la mejor actuación de su carrera." |
| Cinenganos |
| Luis Martinez |
3/5 | "Crowe's performance ... [is] a strikingly good and moving one." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
4/4 | "A grand Hollywood drama." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
7/10 | "Where the film attempts to visualize Nash's thought, it is not perfect but does a very interesting job." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
3/4 | "Russell Crowe steals the show as John Nash, the 1994 Nobel Prize winner for economics" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "The script gets us so inside Nash's head that it makes us a party to his illness and the paranoia that it spawns... but Howard doesn't know how to show us this without, ultimately, making us feel cheated and jerked around." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3/4 | "The first two acts of the film are strong enough to merit a recommendation, as is the consistently impressive work of Connelly." |
| Mr. Brown's Movies |
| Michael Dequina |
3.5/5 | "The strength of the film arises in the second half." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
3.5/4 | "An absorbing movie from start to finish." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
5/5 | "Both Nash’s genius and his mental illness are presented in such compelling, cinematic, and accessible terms that they in essence become characters in the story." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
5/5 | "Ron Howard consegue transformar até mesmo a matemática em algo emocionante." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
4/5 | "This is a lovely film, crafted with attention to detail and assembled with real skill." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
4/5 | "I can't deny how solidly it's crafted, how well-acted, and, wonder of wonders, how intelligently written and directed." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
3/4 | "Director Ron Howard uses interesting visual techniques to show how Nash makes his amazing mathematical connections." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
A- | "It is a thought provoking study of mental illness and the struggle to overcome it." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
4.5/5 | "Fascinating, clever and surprisingly heartfelt, A Beautiful Mind is easily one of this year’s best films." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Scott Weinberg |
| "The pieces fall into place with the precision of one of Nash's confounding mathematical theories." |
| Eclipse Magazine |
| Sean O'Connell |
A- | "A Beautiful Mind is not about ideas per se, but about the experience of living in a world defined by ideas." |
| Decent Films Guide |
| Steven D. Greydanus |
10/10 | "Fascinating, inspiring, Oscar-worthy." |
| www.susangranger.com |
| Susan Granger |
2/4 | "A play for the fickle attentions of middlebrow moviegoers looking for an easy cause they can champion." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
2/4 | "A pedestrian film with a rudimentary script that forces the actors to create believability where there might otherwise be none." |
| Oscar Guy |
| Wesley Lovell |
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OFCS Rating: 79% Fresh |
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