Little White Lies September 24, 2021 A visual feast that lingers long after the end credits.
Slant Magazine July 28, 2021 A methodical, if largely allegorical, exploration of its main character’s psyche, the film smooths out the enduring mysteries, opaque psychol...
The movie’s more ruminative than exuberant. It’s also fully invested in making its own kind of magic, on its own time.
Financial Times September 22, 2021 If you see the movie passing, salute it - a fearless if possibly foolhardy genre of one.
Lowery’s unforgettable adaptation refuses to do the math for us, but it’s all the more thrilling for how it insists that the only true...
New Statesman September 29, 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...
Daily Telegraph September 22, 2021 Monty Python and the Holy Grail is sometimes waggishly described as Ingmar Bergman with more laughs. By the same token, The Green Knight is a...
Rather than tease a particular reading out of Gawain’s journey, the beguiling work functions as a meditation on the search for mean...
At its center is a performance from Patel that walks the knife’s edge between folly and vigor, between wisdom and lamentation, and betwe...
The Green Knight has its share of flaws but there’s a freshness to Lowery’s approach that demands to be noticed.
News.com.au November 2, 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 h...
In a summer of junk, cinema visionary David Lowery delivers a modern movie masterpiece about a wannabe knight (an Oscar worthy Dev Patel) who...
Chicago Reader August 4, 2021 Those looking for a film that does full justice to the original tale may be disappointed by The Green Knight’s lapse into a familiar story of...
A visual stunner from start to finish, but The Green Knight does slip into frustratingly enigmatic territory before rebounding strong and sticking...
RogerEbert.com July 26, 2021 [A] mesmerizing journey guided by Lowery’s incredibly poetic eye, career-best work from Dev Patel, and an artistic sensibility that transport...
New York Post July 30, 2021 The film seizes Lowery’s best skills as a director: his eye for innocence and nature and how he uses slowness to deepen a story.
iNews.co.uk December 7, 2021 Ambitious, strange, and spellbindingly beautiful.
The Australian October 30, 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 Dani...
Globe and Mail July 26, 2021 A beautiful, haunting and enigmatic work that reckons with the folklore’s grave and tragic elements to deliver a masterpiece of blood, s...
Lowery’s latest impresses and wows with a tactile, beguiling dark fantasy epic that cuts right to the Pagan heart of Arthurian legend.
The exceptional level of craftsmanship – which includes some seamless, low-key special effects – wouldn’t be nearly as affecting wi...
"The Green Knight" wields a peculiar magic, the reason being that Lowery-as he showed in "A Ghost Story," which ranged with ease over centurie...
The Ringer August 13, 2021 David Lowery’s riff on Arthurian legend is full of profound truth and awe-inspiring spectacle, but its grayscale world is as opaque as it is...
Lowery’s The Green Knight is cinema’s best Arthurian adaptation, which may matter only to literary scholars. Everyone else will have to...
David Lowery’s movie, starring Dev Patel, cleverly unfolds the public consequences of private indiscretions.
The chapters don’t cohere in a sustained rhythm, but in richly evocative imagery, "The Green Knight" makes its own vivid film language a...
A dazzling, dizzying fever dream…
The Guardian September 27, 2021 What a strange and peculiarly powerful film this is.
Boston Globe August 6, 2021 Pacing, velocity, and flow don’t interest Lowery. He knows the effects he wants and, skilled as he is, knows how to get them. But are they wo...
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 p...
A spectacle of contradictions: as grandiose as the canon of tales to which it belongs but also oddly intimate in focus, with a modern psycholo...
Los Angeles Times December 6, 2021 By the time Gawain reaches his journey’s end, in as moving and majestically sustained a passage of pure cinema as I’ve seen this y...
New York Times July 29, 2021 This movie is worth watching twice.
An unabashedly complex art film that is never watered down or affected by the fear of of box office failure. Simply stunning.
Vanity Fair July 29, 2021 It’s an elusive film, in its plotting and allusions, but is still potent and immediate, as resonant as any of our own late-night quests towar...
Irish Times December 6, 2021 It’s a pity that the preceding two hours don’t always fit, either thematically or qualitatively, with this dramatic, meaningful de...
While you couldn’t call The Green Knight a "faithful" adaptation of the poem, it might be a more faithful adaptation of the bigger legen...
Film of the Week November 12, 2021 Sculptural minimalism defines the medieval stonework, clanking armour takes on the sleek, supple forms of fetishwear, light piercing the frame from...
Over-calculated as it is, The Green Knight does have its authentically dreamlike passages. Near the heart of everything is the hero’s ambival...
Suffice it to say that this tale, romantic and symbolic in equal measure, ends exactly and breathtakingly as it must.
Independent September 23, 2021 The Green Knight has bottled that feeling of ancient foreboding – it’s Arthurian legend at its most rich and enigmatic.
While there’s a lot of commendable chutzpah and curious longing baked into The Green Knight, the movie’s never as compelling as it...
Rolling Stone August 2, 2021 The Green Knight – an epic in miniature, a fantasy all the more poignant for its moral realities – makes this a lesson worth learning.
Those expecting an Arthurian sword-and-sandals battle epic will be sorely disappointed. Instead, Lowery has delivered a dense, sensual, almost...
Empire Magazine September 22, 2021 A rivetingly weird and exceptionally beautiful fantasy film that offers no easy answers but ponders the biggest questions – through myths, mys...
Led by Dev Patel at his most magnetic, this is a fantastical adventure in a genre all of its own.
Times (UK) December 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...
New Yorker August 4, 2021 In "The Green Knight," Lowery revises a legend, in style and in substance, in order to evoke a way of telling different stories, and of t...
The Atlantic July 28, 2021 It’s the movie Lowery was born to make, a dreamy piece of high fantasy that bombards the viewer with visual delights, skimps on all but the m...
TIME Magazine July 26, 2021 A movie that’s both of its time and splendidly out of step with it, an act of necromancy in a CGI world.
filmcomment.com December 6, 2021 The Green Knight’s attempts to blend a young man’s personal reckonings and psychic confrontations with Lowery’s go-for-broke...
Told in sumptuously gritty imagery, this epic feat of bold imagination is unconcerned with mitigating its creative force for the sake of unadventur...
Inside Hook September 21, 2021 In lieu of hero-buildling and stylized violence, David Lowery’s take on Arthurian legend invites you to soak in its vibes and chew the scenery.
Lowery has taken a young man’s journey of self-discovery and fashioned it into a gorgeous and moving work of art.
I got caught up in it (to a point). I was, in the end, moved by it. I was also, at moments, slightly baffled by it. But I saw how it...
David Lowery’s latest is a mesmerizing medieval fantasy.
Several heads roll though it’s your mind that’ll get truly blown by "The Green Knight," a visually dazzling and thoughtful trip ba...
Occupying practically every scene, Patel makes a striking and relatable hero, spending much of the time as confused as the audience is apt to be.
Looking at it is like being immersed in a medieval tapestry. Watching it is like being immersed in a Jungian dream filled with choices, enigma...
The Guardian July 26, 2021 To disguise a film so artful and boldly uncommercial as mass-market entertainment for those still hurting from Game of Thrones' conclusion&nbs...
Detroit News July 29, 2021 Lowery dives all the way in and viewers are rewarded with a sumptuous feast for the eyes and the soul.
The Arthurian myths remain because we come to them, not because we reshape them, and they are open to all. In this realization, The Green Knight is...
MovieFreak.com July 30, 2021 In virtually every scene, Patel is simply marvelous.
Knight is ultimately a tale of honor though, and a deeply moral one – inscrutable, but haunting too.
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