The Green Knight currently has an average rating of 6.1 out of 10 and has been rated by 328 users on our platform.
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It is episodic, mystical, a fable, and a portrait of flaws.
Read full review at The Austin Chronicle...one of the most memorable films of the year, a fascinating swirl of masculinity, temptation, heroism, and religion.
Read full review at Roger EbertI didn't mind that it was long and super slow. The visuals were pretty amazing.
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.
Read full review at EmpireDavid Lowery’s complex, visually sumptuous and uncommercial tale of Arthurian legend revels in upending expectations.
Read full review at The GuardianThe visual brilliance of this film combines with shroomy toxicity and inexplicable moral grandeur: what a stunning experience.
Read full review at The GuardianIf you want to know why this fable endures, Lowery’s film makes that case better than any English lit class ever could.
Read full review at Movie Nation... a quixotic, scantly plotted reverie steeped in dream logic and dazzling imagery.
Read full review at Entertainment Weekly...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.
Read full review at The GuardianA beautiful journey into imagination. My new Christmas ritual. If you’re looking for sword fights and princesses in distress you’re bound for disappointment
Wild at heart, this quiet epic casts a lingering mystical spell, perfect to usher in the forthcoming autumn nights.
Read full review at Little White Lies...a fascinating adventure, rejecting the heart-racing thrills expected of this subgenre for pleasures far more cerebral.
Read full review at Ign...expands and reworks the 14th-century Arthurian poem into a string of supremely eerie mythic skits.
Read full review at The Telegraph