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.

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.

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.

Lowery's ability to represent dark and medieval fantasy in an original visual way, while adding to the deconstruction of the hero's journey, gives a sense of power to the film. Patel was the perfect choice. [Full review in Spanish]

The Green Knight is a cinema experience like few others.

“The Green Knight” has a magnificent cast and is visually stunning. If it was a silent film, I may have enjoyed it more.

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.