Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
A Beautiful Mind
Scored from 910 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Brilliant mathematician John Nash navigates his early career at Princeton, where he makes groundbreaking contributions to game theory while privately struggling with his mental health. As his academic success grows and he marries Alicia, Nash's grip on reality increasingly deteriorates, revealing a debilitating battle with schizophrenia that threatens to destroy everything he has built. The film chronicles his descent into paranoia and his eventual path toward acceptance and recovery with the support of his devoted wife.
Ron Howard directed A Beautiful Mind, a drama and biography film from 2001. It is rated PG-13. The runtime is 135 minutes. It was made in the United States. It stars Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 910 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 972 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where A Beautiful Mind lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2000s (7,847 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 910.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
