It’s good to be an evil queen
What sets this Snow White apart is how the filmmakers have feminized the action and the metaphors with a modern sensibility; the evil queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron, pictured) is not merely vain, but as body-obsessed as a Cosmo reader, and probably a man-hating lesbian. Snow (Kristen Stewart) is an English-speaking Joan of Arc, rallying her troops for righteousness.
There are several missteps in this slightly overlong adventure, an uneasy amalgam of Harry Potter, Twilight (the queens powers are positively vampiric), Robin Hood and Lord of the Rings, but none are unsurmountable. And like the latter two films, the first-time director, Rupert Sanders, treats the material with the epic solemnity of fact-based myths like Gladiator: We are meant to be invested in the Christian mythos (she dies, comes back to life and brings peace to the realm by defeating a practitioner of dark arts).
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