Much more heartfelt than expected - pleasingly so!
<em>'The Phantom of the Open'</em> is a very sweet film, with Mark Rylance being the absolutely perfect lead for it - great performance from him! ...
A review by CinemaSerf
7.0
Written by CinemaSerf on 2 / Apr / 2022
Based on the true story of Maurice Flitcroft who was almost as bad a golfer as me, Mark Rylance is on super form. He works at the Barrow-in-Firness shipyard just as it's about to be wound down. Lookin...
A review by Steve Parker
8.0
Written by Steve Parker on 6 / Aug / 2022
PHANTOM OF THE OPEN is a hilarious true story of the world's worst golfer, Maurice Flitcroft (played by Mark Rylance). In 1976, Maurice tried to qualify for the British Open and shot the worst round i...
A review by Peter McGinn
8.0
Written by Peter McGinn on 1 / Feb / 2023
It is a cliché that there are some performers people would watch reading from a phone book. An exaggeration, perhaps, but the leads in this movie, Mark Rylance and Sally Hawkins, approach that status ...