For all its rough edges, "Personal Problems" retains a vitality and an integrity that practically bounds off the screen. Full Review

Rating: 4/4 -- Bill Gunn and Ishmael Reed collapse conventional notions of reality, providing simultaneous glimpses into the minds of dozens of characters, lingering on scenes and informing them with confessional intensity. Full Review

Rating: C+ -- There is a film, possibly a gem, buried way deep down here. It would be an interesting project to try to build that film from the pieces. Full Review

A view of African Americans that's messy, complicated, dramatic, and, most important, honest. Full Review

Uneven, sometimes disjointed, its narrative threads nowhere near resolved at the end, Personal Problems is nonetheless something rare and valuable, particularly for its era. Full Review

An accessible experiment made at the dawn of the video era. Full Review

One doesn't quite watch Personal Problems for its technical superiority, one watches it for the problems that still persist, to draw a line of legacy for A Wrinkle in Time, Black Panther and Mudbound that have been made Full Review