The Green Knight

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.

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.

Ambitious, strange, and spellbindingly beautiful.

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

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.

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.

Possibly the most beautiful, and near inscrutable film this year, is David Lowery's epic, Arthurian tale. In a film world full of obvious explanations, The Green Knight provides precious few.

The performances are second to none, the plot is interesting and the surreal medieval feel is nothing short of an experience. The cinematography is the movies shining star, with memorable shots creating a visionary spectacle.

Spellbound journey that had me in a hauntingly beautiful trance the entire way through. Bleak, Bold, Brilliant, & downright thought provoking. 



Andrew Droz Palermo's stunning cinematography, Daniel Hart's atmosphere-setting score, and especially Johnny Marshall's impactful sound design deeply elevate the tremendous epic scope that this movie holds.