Green Knight, The

[Releases Dec. 10 in theaters.] Considerable garbled dialogue detracts from David Lowery's visually stunning, unusual, convoluted, star-studded (Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury, Kate Dickie, Barry Keoghan, Megan Tierman, and Erin Kellyman), 130-minute film adapted from the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in which the alcohol-guzzling, womanizing nephew (Dev Patel), who frequents a smitten prostitute (Alicia Vikander) in a brothel, to the sickly King Arthur (Sean Harris) in 424 A.D. agrees to play a dangerous game and to go up against the mysterious, axe-wielding, tree-bark-like Green Knight (Ralph Ineson) in Camelot on Christmas Day, but then he must reluctantly make a perilous journey one year later to the Green Chapel to confront the giant knight who will return the strike.
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