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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.
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The leads are convincingly athletic, the characters well drawn. October 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. April 28, 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. August 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. August 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
It's fun, like any sporting event. And, like some record-breaking sporting events, it's defining, because in it women are seen as strong, vital and magnificent, and the lovers seem not extraordinary because of their homosexual liaison. May 26, 2020 | Full Review…
It's fun, like any sporting event. And, like some record-breaking sporting events, it's defining, because in it women are seen as strong, vital and magnificent, and the lovers seem not extraordinary because of their homosexual liaison.
Victoria Brownworth
How this film sees a woman's body is, for American cinema, revolutionary. May 19, 2020 | Full Review…
How this film sees a woman's body is, for American cinema, revolutionary.
Janet Singleton
Personal Best is a winner, thanks to its rich characterizations and the interesting behind-the-scenes look it gives us into its unique milieu. November 20, 2019 | Full Review…
Personal Best is a winner, thanks to its rich characterizations and the interesting behind-the-scenes look it gives us into its unique milieu.
Rick Chatenever
The camera too often records and predicts what a lascivious man would want to see rather than an aesthetic observer. August 16, 2019 | Full Review…
The camera too often records and predicts what a lascivious man would want to see rather than an aesthetic observer.
Camille Kittrell
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
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