The Green Knight - Reviews

It is episodic, mystical, a fable, and a portrait of flaws.

...one of the most memorable films of the year, a fascinating swirl of masculinity, temptation, heroism, and religion.

A rivetingly weird and exceptionally beautiful fantasy film that offers no easy answers but ponders the biggest questions — through myths, mysticism, and men in crisis. This is major stuff from David Lowery.

David Lowery’s complex, visually sumptuous and uncommercial tale of Arthurian legend revels in upending expectations.

The visual brilliance of this film combines with shroomy toxicity and inexplicable moral grandeur: what a stunning experience.

If you want to know why this fable endures, Lowery’s film makes that case better than any English lit class ever could.

... a quixotic, scantly plotted reverie steeped in dream logic and dazzling imagery.

...there is enough here that is dazzling and enthralling for Lowery’s movie to stand proudly as a grand work of poetry in its own right.

Wild at heart, this quiet epic casts a lingering mystical spell, perfect to usher in the forthcoming autumn nights.

...a fascinating adventure, rejecting the heart-racing thrills expected of this subgenre for pleasures far more cerebral.

...expands and reworks the 14th-century Arthurian poem into a string of supremely eerie mythic skits.