A Beautiful Mind: A Second Look

You know, this movie really isn’t built for rewatches at all. If you go in knowing that Nash is a schizophrenic, seeing people who aren’t there, and you recall which of the characters you see are those manifestations of his mental issues, the film is robbed of so much of its tension and mystery. The more I revisit it, the less I like Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind, a competently made biopic that hits just all of the little cliched structural bits as the film, written by Akiva Goldsmith, plays...