At its center is a performance from Patel that walks the knife's edge between folly and vigor, between wisdom and lamentation, and between predetermination and doubt.

| Dec 7, 2021

Lowery's elusive adaptation withholds its meaning up to and beyond that final image of a mossy stump. It's left to the viewer to puzzle out the ending for herself on the way home -- an invitation to another most excellent adventure.

| Dec 7, 2021

Sprawling, strange and dreamlike, David Lowery's interpretation of Arthurian legend is ripe for our time, and Dev Patel is excellent as the headstrong Gawain.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 7, 2021

It's a pity that the preceding two hours don't always fit, either thematically or qualitatively, with this dramatic, meaningful denouement.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2021

It might have been too much, too heavy, were it not for Patel. He is sympathetic in every frame... here he has graduated to something more commanding. He now has the gravitas of a leading man and radiates movie-star charisma.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 6, 2021

The Green Knight's attempts to blend a young man's personal reckonings and psychic confrontations with Lowery's go-for-broke stylings feel less virtuously enigmatic than flat and disjointed in their opaque graspings at profundity.

| Dec 6, 2021

Knight is ultimately a tale of honor though, and a deeply moral one -- inscrutable, but haunting too.

| Original Score: B | Dec 6, 2021

The exceptional level of craftsmanship -- which includes some seamless, low-key special effects -- wouldn't be nearly as affecting without the comparable care Lowery brings to this story.

| Dec 6, 2021

While you couldn't call The Green Knight a "faithful" adaptation of the poem, it might be a more faithful adaptation of the bigger legend around Gawain's adventure than a line-by-line recreation ever could have been.

| Dec 6, 2021

Sculptural minimalism defines the medieval stonework, clanking armour takes on the sleek, supple forms of fetishwear, light piercing the frame from unnatural places, sometimes saturating entire scenes in acid baths of verdigris green and radium yellow.

| Nov 12, 2021

It's a film that will enthral and fascinate audiences who won't be able to push it - and certain images - out of their heads.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2021

This is a slow-moving movie (125-minutes) that will make you think, during and after. By the end I was comparing it with the work of Danish director Lars von Trier...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2021

Over-calculated as it is, The Green Knight does have its authentically dreamlike passages. Near the heart of everything is the hero's ambivalent, perhaps masochistic sexuality.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 28, 2021

Fittingly for a story that is often opaque, the action plays out in muddy light or at arm's length: this is a movie to be squinted at as much as watched.

| Sep 29, 2021

A tale told mainly via startling visuals requires an actor with a singularly expressive face, and Patel rises to the challenge. He strips away knightly courage to reveal the fear lurking behind every so-called 'hero'.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2021

What a strange and peculiarly powerful film this is.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 27, 2021

What ultimately puts The Green Knight beyond the pale, for me, is the posthumanism of Lady Bertilak's monologue and how her speech helps to shape and determine the meaning of the ending in what I can only consider a nihilistic direction.

| Sep 26, 2021

An unabashedly complex art film that is never watered down or affected by the fear of of box office failure. Simply stunning.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 25, 2021

A visual feast that lingers long after the end credits.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 24, 2021

The Green Knight has bottled that feeling of ancient foreboding - it's Arthurian legend at its most rich and enigmatic.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 23, 2021