Volume 29, Number 4 · March 18, 1982
Good at Games
By Veronica Geng
Personal Best
written and directed by Robert Towne
Personal Best has a quality rare in movies now: ambition worn lightly. This looks like a small, simple movie, but it's hardly modest. It invites you to look at a few basic results of the peremptory, almost arrogant leap it took even before the lights went out in the theater. You don't see the leap itself, but the exhilaration of it lingers on the screen.
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