Snow White And The Huntsman
Opens today at Rave, Quality 16, Brighton
Review by Jeff Meyers of the Metro Times
Grade: C

What is it about Kristen Stewart that resists interesting and proactive heroines? While not nearly as mopey and passive as the insufferably indecisive Bella Swan, her revisionist Snow White is two hours of yet more earnest blandness and pained grimaces. To quote a far better film, "Why so serious?"

With nary an ounce of pluck, ferocity or humor to be found, Evan Daugherty and John Lee Hancock's aimless and overstuffed screenplay does the young actress no favors. As written, Snow makes exactly two choices in the film: to escape imprisonment at the beginning and to attack her wicked stepmother at the end. In between, she stumbles from one stunning landscape to the next, frowning and fretting as men either hunt, protect or adore her. Maybe this is another installment in the Twilight series after all.

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