The Phantom of the Open
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: June 3, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
22
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Time OutOlly RichardsMar 18, 2022
It has a bit of the mood of The Full Monty or Brassed Off about it, and if it’s not as good as either of those it has a gentle upbeat cheeriness that’s hard to resist. Read full review
60
EmpireIan FreerMar 15, 2022
What The Phantom Of The Open lacks in ambition or dramatic oomph, it makes up for in easy-going appeal. Anchored by an impish Mark Rylance, it takes its cue from the story’s hero: a bit ramshackle, very amiable, always watchable. Read full review
60
CineVueMatthew AndersonOct 21, 2021
As fuzzy and reassuring as a multi-coloured Pringle sweater-vest, The Phantom of the Open is a good, old-fashioned crowd-pleaser. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 21, 2021
Rylance is good casting as Maurice: his delicate sing-song voice and sometimes faintly unfocused gaze fit nicely with our hero’s lovably awkward determination, as well as Flitcroft’s sense as a natural comedian that there is something more than a little absurd in the game of golf. Read full review
55
TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanJun 2, 2022
The Phantom of the Open tries so hard to be a winking commentary on British heartwarmers about lovable outsiders. And its efforts are, as often as not, entertaining. But after a while, it becomes clear that what it wants more than anything is to be embraced as a crowd-pleasing comedy itself. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyJun 16, 2022
The movie is alternately preposterous and predictable, forced in humor and saccharine in emotion, and it’s not exactly steady in striking a balance between the two. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonJun 7, 2022
Rylance is always good, but director Craig Roberts, to use a golf term, lays up instead of going for the pin. In other words, he plays it safe. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireJun 3, 2022
With its amusing training montages, colorful supporting characters, and uplifting message of perseverance, The Phantom of the Open does exactly what you expect it will in the most familiar, comforting manner imaginable. It earns the politest of golf claps. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineWes GreeneJun 1, 2022
The film loses its satiric edge as it begins to melodramatically detail how Maurice Flitcroft inherited the mantle of folk hero. Read full review
40
Little White LiesAdam WoodwardMar 16, 2022
It’s undemanding, dramatically inert and, although class is very much on its agenda, one-dimensional in its depiction of the golfing establishment’s stuffy elitism. Read full review
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