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Snow White
also known as “Disney's Snow White,” “Albă ca Zăpada,” “Baekseolgongju,” “Biancaneve,” “Blanca Nieves,” “Blanche-Neige,” “Branca de Neve,” See all »
MPA Rating:
for violence, some peril, thematic elements and brief rude humor.
for violence, some peril, thematic elements and brief rude humor.
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| Primary Audience: | Family |
| Genre: | Musical Fantasy Remake |
| Length: | 1 hr. 49 min. |
| Year of Release: | 2025 |
| USA Release: |
March 21, 2025 |
| Featuring |
Rachel Zegler … Snow White Gal Gadot … Evil Queen Andrew Burnap … Jonathan Martin Klebba … Grumpy Colin Michael Carmichael … Farno See all » |
| Director |
Marc Webb |
| Producer |
Marc Platt Productions The Walt Disney Company See all » |
| Distributor |
Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “Live-action adaptation of the 1937 Disney animated film ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’.”
“Did Disney’s Snow White Go Woke?”
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Secular Movie Critics
…Conceptually, this movie was doomed from the start. …“Snow White” is supposed to be a story about how inner beauty is more important than outer beauty, but honestly, this movie has neither.
Petrana Radulovic, Polygon
…This movie is bad in all sorts of ways, none of which has to do with the fact that Disney cast a Latina actor as Snow White. …
Odie Henderson, The Boston Globe
…Children will be bored, teens talked down to, and most adults will wonder where their Snow White is. …
Richard Whittaker, The Austin Chronicle
…Uninspired… Aesthetically…disastrous… looks appallingly cheap for a blockbuster… Snow White as a “Rebellion Hero” is fun on paper, but the live-action remake doesn’t engage enough with that transformation or mine it for proper character drama; it just expects you to connect the dots. … [2/5]
Tyler Taing, Discussing Film
…the story of Snow White taking back her kingdom doesn’t land. I doubt anyone’s going to this expecting a political thriller, but that’s how the movie sets itself up, and it fails. …
Kristian Lin, Fort Worth Weekly
…exhaustingly awful… This fudged, pseudo-progressive approach is so tiring you’ll want to put your head in your hands. … [1/5]
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK)
…Every modification fails to improve the tale, and the whimsy and wonder of fairy tales are missing. It does not honor the original but shuns it instead. …Why is romance now forbidden in children’s movies? Let’s be clear: Snow White and Jonathan will never live happily ever after. …The music is excellent, but the lyrics are an issue. …The acting…is a bit over-the-top. …the dwarves…are creepy as hell… [2/4]
Alan Ng, Film Threat
…The dwarves are an unholy VFX disaster. …they slow the film to a crawl every time they appear… the film feels compromised and so small… [2/5]
Helen O'Hara, Empire [UK]
…one more boring, mediocre live-action Disney retread… The timeless classic, a groundbreaking achievement for animation, has been turned into another pointless and awkward live-action automaton that vanishes from your mind the second it’s over. …
Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post
…none of it has the sweetness and imagination of the animated feature…
Nell Minow, RogerEbert.com
…There’s an unresolved tension between paying tribute to the playfulness of a Disney classic and telling a story driven by themes of self-empowerment and revolutionary courage that have little to do with the original tale. …The film seems to be political only to prove that it isn’t apolitical. … [2/4]
Dan Rubins, Slant
…Full of bad ideas… so let’s try to be positive. There’s nothing wrong with Disney’s live-action remake of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” that couldn’t be fixed by making it 26 minutes shorter, 88 years ago and in hand-drawn animation. …
William Bibbiani, The Wrap
…not as bad as it could be, while not being anywhere near good… It’s garishly ugly… the movie itself is devoid of delight… The most pragmatic aspect of “Snow White” is that with its plasticky set design and gift-shop-tacky costuming, it already looks like it takes place in a theme park—no adaptations necessary.
Alison Willmore, Vulture (New York Magazine)
…the pacing is off. …Half of it is set in a grimy, gloomy land where Snow White wants to foment a peasants’ revolt and restore a socialist utopia… This has to be the closest a Disney princess film has got to paraphrasing The Communist Manifesto. …half of it is set in a chirpy, brightly-coloured fantasy realm of benign and beautiful aristocrats. Half the time, the characters are belting out overwrought, self-empowerment anthems… this muddled production will be enjoyed more by politics and cinema students than by children who are hoping to be enchanted by Disney magic. … [3/5]
Nicholas Barber, BBC
…There are elements…that work. Then, there are the dwarfs… If only there were…less screen time spent dancing in the realm of mind-breaking absurdity. …Narratively, there are a lot of flaws, but it’s aesthetically where the movie really falls apart. …
Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence
…No Magic Mirror is needed to identify it as the lamest Mouse House re-do of them all. …
Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
…For every attempt to replicate majestic shots from the original or to give them a bit of technological oomph (perhaps most effective as sunlight breaks through Snow White’s fearful first trip through the forest), there is a spurt of modern quippiness that pulls the audience in the other direction. It’s a disorienting…
Jacob Oller, AV Club
…Of all the stories in all the world to remake on the big screen, why “Snow White”? … it’s hard to come up with a compelling reason for this movie to exist. …
Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times
…Presumably one of the reasons to bring actors into remakes of animated classics would be to add a warm-blooded pulse to these characters. Zegler manages that, but everyone else in “Snow White” — mortal or CGI — is as stiff as could be. …
Jake Coyle, Associated Press
…The fairest in the land? Far from it. …
Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist
…a lazily conceived, visually repellent remake… features a dud of a performance from Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen… What’s most disheartening about it all is how predictable Disney’s choices have become. With Snow White, they’ve finessed their formula—do the bare minimum to make a film, then simply slap a bunch of cutesy CGI animals all over it and hope no one notices.
Clarisse Loughrey, Independent