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  • 2015
  • R
  • GM Films
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2015
  • R
  • GM Films
  • 1 h 27 m

Summary Brothers Samuel and Beckett Emerson are barely scraping by. Their father, Warren, continues to gamble and drink away any money they bring home. With all the havoc that is constantly going on in their lives, the family members each find solace in his own way, through Shakespeare, comic books and impossible love affairs. Beckett seizes the...

Directed By: Antonia Bogdanovich

Written By: Antonia Bogdanovich, Anne Heffron

  • 2015
  • R
  • GM Films
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2015
  • R
  • GM Films
  • 1 h 27 m

Phantom Halo

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Brothers Samuel and Beckett Emerson are barely scraping by. Their father, Warren, continues to gamble and drink away any money they bring home. With all the havoc that is constantly going on in their lives, the family members each find solace in his own way, through Shakespeare, comic books and impossible love affairs. Beckett seizes the...

Directed By: Antonia Bogdanovich

Written By: Antonia Bogdanovich, Anne Heffron

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
37
13% Positive
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25% Mixed
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63% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Positive
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25% Mixed
2 Reviews
63% Negative
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80
Jun 18, 2015
A dark, satisfying work that can be forgiven for the moments it succumbs to Hollywood convention.
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42
Jun 17, 2015
With Phantom Halo, Bogdanovich, an actress who’s been playing bit parts since her first uncredited appearance in her father’s “The Last Picture Show,” shows that she has a knack for directing actors and building a visually appealing story.
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40
Jun 17, 2015
Sleepy domestic-abuse/coming-of-age melodrama Phantom Halo never goes anywhere memorable because its two main characters don't consistently act like they're afraid of their big bad dad.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
38
Jun 16, 2015
The performances are believable enough. But the film’s violence is both expected and absurdly random.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
30
Jun 18, 2015
Although the performances, including that of Rebecca Romijn channeling Cybill Shepherd as a femme fatale type, are sturdy, their characters have been given absolutely nowhere interesting to go.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
30
Jun 16, 2015
Phantom Halo is overstuffed even before Bogdanovich starts layering in the soliloquies and comic book metaphors.
By Matthew Dessem FULL REVIEW
12
Jun 17, 2015
A genre mishmash cobbled together from the refuse of disparate visual and narrative modes.
By Oleg Ivanov FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Station 8 Films, Optimism Entertainment
Release Date Jun 19, 2015
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating R
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Tagline Two brothers, one dream and a hundred ways to get it.
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Awards

Sarasota Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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