TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Our film critic, Justin Chang, says that "The Green Knight," which stars Dev Patel as a young adventurer from King Arthur's court, is one of the most magical movies he's seen so far this year. It's the latest film from David Lowery, the writer and director of the indie dramas "A Ghost Story" and "Ain't Them Bodies Saints." It opens Friday in theaters nationwide. Here's Justin's review. JUSTIN CHANG, BYLINE: As powerful a grip as King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table still exert on our imaginations, there haven't been enough great or even good movies made about them. There have been some, of course. I'm fond of the lush Wagnerian grandeur of John Boorman's "Excalibur." And we'll always love "Monty Python And The Holy Grail." But they're more the exception than the rule. So I mean it as high praise when I say that I've never seen an Arthurian sword-and-sorcery epic quite like "The Green Knight." With this boldly inventive adaptation of "Sir Gawain And The Green Knight," an anonymously written but enduring 14th century poem, the writer-director David Lowery has taken a young man's journey of self-discovery and fashioned it into a gorgeous and moving work of art.