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Mariel Hemingway has a career-making star turn in this highly physical drama about two Olympic athletes who find each other during competitive training.
All Critics (29) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (8) | DVD (3)
The leads are convincingly athletic, the characters well drawn. Oct 22, 2018 | Full Review…
The leads are convincingly athletic, the characters well drawn.
Bob Thomas
[Robert] Towne's direction can be frustrating - at one point Donnelly and Hemingway run up a sand dune for what seems like five minutes - but the result is 50 percent more realistic than the average sports film. May 30, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
[Robert] Towne's direction can be frustrating - at one point Donnelly and Hemingway run up a sand dune for what seems like five minutes - but the result is 50 percent more realistic than the average sports film.
Peter Hartlaub
But "Personal Best" only jogs along sometimes: It suffers from fleshing out. May 30, 2018 | Full Review…
But "Personal Best" only jogs along sometimes: It suffers from fleshing out.
Pamela Kessler
Robert Towne's Personal Best is a flashy, hip and quite fascinating investigation into the arduous process of working out sexual identity in today's narcissistic society and culture. Apr 27, 2018 | Full Review…
Robert Towne's Personal Best is a flashy, hip and quite fascinating investigation into the arduous process of working out sexual identity in today's narcissistic society and culture.
Bruce McCabe
Personal Best is likable precisely because it is so unembarrassed. Aug 4, 2008 | Full Review…
Personal Best is likable precisely because it is so unembarrassed.
Richard Schickel
Towne has a love of slow motion that's employed as if he's afraid you might miss one, rippling muscle. Worse than that, when people aren't exercising, they are often talking about exercising. Aug 4, 2008 | Full Review…
Towne has a love of slow motion that's employed as if he's afraid you might miss one, rippling muscle. Worse than that, when people aren't exercising, they are often talking about exercising.
Variety Staff
Producer-director-screenwriter Robert Towne has fallen dismally short of his own personal best. May 30, 2018 | Full Review…
Producer-director-screenwriter Robert Towne has fallen dismally short of his own personal best.
People Staff
The camerawork is occasionally fussy and over-reliant on sporting clichés, but this is still subtle, sensual stuff. May 30, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The camerawork is occasionally fussy and over-reliant on sporting clichés, but this is still subtle, sensual stuff.
David Parkinson
Which horrible Eighties haircut to choose? Regardless, you'll be rewarded with some of the most startling and texturally stunning American cinema of that largely barren zone shortly thereafter to be known as the Reagan era. Score! May 30, 2018 | Full Review…
Which horrible Eighties haircut to choose? Regardless, you'll be rewarded with some of the most startling and texturally stunning American cinema of that largely barren zone shortly thereafter to be known as the Reagan era. Score!
Chuck Stephens
Personal Best has a quality rare in movies now: ambition worn lightly. This looks like a small, simple movie, but it's hardly modest. Jan 9, 2018 | Full Review…
Personal Best has a quality rare in movies now: ambition worn lightly. This looks like a small, simple movie, but it's hardly modest.
Veronica Geng
[VIDEO] Although screenwriter Robert Towne's directorial debut fell largely on deaf ears when it was released in 1982 "Personal Best" remains a powerful examination of high-stakes female athletes during the late '70s... Jan 9, 2012 | Rating: A | Full Review…
[VIDEO] Although screenwriter Robert Towne's directorial debut fell largely on deaf ears when it was released in 1982 "Personal Best" remains a powerful examination of high-stakes female athletes during the late '70s...
Cole Smithey
Endowed with remarkable performances, superb photography, and a clear vision of what matters to its characters, Personal Best is an underappreciated gem in a genre full of filler. Jun 27, 2009 | Rating: 72/100 | Full Review…
Endowed with remarkable performances, superb photography, and a clear vision of what matters to its characters, Personal Best is an underappreciated gem in a genre full of filler.
Jeremy Heilman
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