In today’s Chronicle Mick LaSalle reviewed “Computer Chess” and gave it a five star rankings. As usual, he adds some of his own wisdom in the second paragraph below:
The humor in "Computer Chess" is extremely subtle. There are no gags, no punch lines, but everything in it is a little bit funny, and if you laugh at any moment, the response is appropriate. But it's the humor mixed with sadness that gives the movie its special quality, that makes it end, you might say, on a full chord rather than a thin note.
By the way, just one tiny anachronism. Someone, referring to a problem, calls it an "issue." People in 1982 didn't have "issues," they had problems, which are a lot more dignified. When people have problems, they solve them. When people have issues, they sit back and watch them ooze.
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