Several heads roll, though it’s your mind that ll get truly blown by “The Green Knight,” a visually dazzling and thoughtful trip back to Camelot.
Director David Lowery, who crafted the magnificent and elegiac “A Ghost Story,” adapts a 14th-century epic poem into a surprisingly relevant and gleefully weird coming-of-age tale full of distressed ghosts, scheming bandits, naked giants and a talking fox. It’s not always obvious what points “The Green Knight” (★★★½ out of four; rated R; in theaters Friday) is trying to make, as Lowery chooses to leave a lot for audience interpretation. But here’s a fact: With a career-best performance, Dev Patel shines in a sumptuous, dark fantasy about honor, consequence and mortality.
The Green Knight takes a dream-like trip through the Arthurian legend
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