Ultimately the message is banal and rather repellent: brainwork wrecks your health.

Crowe is called upon to do not much more than stare solicitously at the heavens, from where inspiration duly arrives, to the accompaniment of some predictably celestial music.

A Beautiful Mind is Howard's best movie, and easily one of the best movies of the year.

The film is still a Hollywood interpretation of real-life Nash's story—one that some viewers, particularly those with lived experience of mental illness, may find overly glamorized.