Snow White & the Huntsman

Astonishingly beautiful and breathtaking in its brutal imagery, “Snow White & the Huntsman” is thrilling and frightening in equal measure, yet as bereft of satisfying substance as a poisoned apple.

My fear going into Snow White & the Huntsman was that it would represent the Twilight-ing of a classic fairy tale, kind of like last year's Red Riding Hood. I have nothing against making movies for a primarily tween-girl audience, but some of them are...

For the second time this year, we get a revision of the Brothers Grimm tale of the conflict between Snow White (Kristen Stewart, dull and lifeless as ever) and her wicked stepmother (Charlize Theron, snarling up a storm).

The first Snow White adaptation of 2012, "Mirror Mirror," took the sunny, kid-friendly route – and thus couldn’t be more different from the second one, “Snow White and the Huntsman,” which is serious and grown-up. And why shouldn’t it be? We’ve seen...

Last time I checked, the Grimm Brothers were not creating literary works with the influence of The Lord of the Ring series. In the end, this is all this film will be known for, as a wannabe Lord of the Ring. Charlize and the Dwarfs were the saving...

The recent resurgence of "revisionist" fairy tales means that audiences have been gifted not one, but two new takes on the Snow White tale in 11 weeks. In his feature debut, commerical director Rupert Sanders shows off his unquestionable flair and eye...

This year’s second revisionist take on the Brothers Grimm classic, “Snow White and the Huntsman’’ is a visual treat with some expertly staged (if bloodlessly PG-13) battle scenes.

To those who mock the casting of ever-gloomy Kristen Stewart (“Twilight”) as the brothers Grimm’s ultra-pure Snow White: Why shouldn’t she brood? The heroine's spent the better part of her teens locked in an isolated tower, with nothing to do but stare...

Snow White and the Huntsman is the second movie this year based on the fairy tale of a young princess and her monstrous stepmother. But where Mirror Mirror opted for froth and camp and tra-la-la, this one puts the Grimm back into the story. Ravenna...

Some fairy tales are best left alone. In doing some quick research I learned that there are no less than thirty filmed versions of the tale of Snow White. And I’m willing to bet that all of them (well, maybe not the X-rated version entitled...

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who eats raw bird hearts and takes baths in Elmer's Glue and hollers like Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest and black-widow sexes guys to death and sucks the virgin breath out of teen models and aspires to Kristen Stewart...

Kristen Stewart should watch her mouth. She isn't talking trash or dirty, but slack-jawed is no way for a fairy-tale warrior to look. Not that there's much action in Snow White and the Huntsman anyway.

After an evil sorceress named Ravenna (Charlize Theron) tricks her way into a kingdom’s throne, she locks up the former king’s daughter, Snow White (Kristen Stewart), into a tower for safe keeping. Advised by her magic mirror, Snow White is Ravenna’s...

Snow White and the Huntsman is the newest installment from Hollywood's recent love for adapting fairytales with a new twist. We've had recent movies such as Red Riding Hood and Mirror Mirror grace the silver screen, plus we've got even more heading our...

“Snow White and the Huntsman” has everything you remember from the classic fairy tale, plus a heck of a lot you don’t.

There’s something rotten in Denmark… or wherever the hell it is this story is supposed to take place geographically. What may come as a surprise to many of you, is that the decaying fruit of Snow White and the Huntsman, is not, as many postulated ahead...

Better and more darkly imaginative than its headache of a coming-attractions trailer suggests, "Snow White and the Huntsman" follows another Snow White re-do, "Mirror Mirror," into theaters by two months and two days.

Earlier this spring, when there were two Snow White adaptations to look forward to, I was rolling my eyes at “Mirror Mirror” and rubbing my hands with anticipation for “Snow White and the Huntsman.” As it turns out, now that I’ve seen both movies...

The greatest innovation Snow White And The Huntsman brings to its “dark retelling” of the Snow White fairy tale is suggesting that its evil-queen antagonist (played by Charlize Theron) has a name, a past, and a purpose.

Kristen Stewart is miscast in Rupert Sanders’ good looking but shallow reimagining of the classic Snow White fairy-tale. Stewart plays the title character with open-mouthed sincerity, but doesn’t actually have that much to do, or even many lines of...

Once upon a time, in a strange and mysterious place called Hollywood, a group of energetic producers became fascinated with children's fairy tales. They huffed and puffed and blew up the millions of dollars in cash needed to turn these children's...

Getting back to the darker roots of fairy tales is one of the many things Snow White and the Huntsman does right. The dark characters in muddy sets and strange creatures lurking in shadows are all on display, much of them effectively executed with...

Escaping from her evil stepmother Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron), Snow White (Kristen Stewart) hides out in the enchanted Dark Forest. The Queen sends a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) to kill "the fairest one of all", but instead he protects her and...

There's not much new under the sun in Snow White and the Huntsman, which is to be expected when your source material is a 19th century fairy tale that's been adapted half a hundred times already. You know the story, you know the characters, you know...

Snow White and the Huntsman is like the bitchy girl in high school. She's attractive, sexy and stylish, but cold and hollow underneath. She may be worth a ride or two around the block, but she's never going to meet the parents.

The second film this year to be adapted from the infamous Brothers Grimm fable (after Mirror Mirror), Snow White and the Huntsman follows Kristen Stewart's Snow White as she escapes from the clutches of her evil stepmother (Charlize Theron's Ravenna)...

Let's start out by not dwelling overmuch on the existence of Mirror Mirror. The basic story outline may be the same, but the similarities end there. Everything of importance is different: tone, intent, plot specifics, and so forth.

Universal puts the grim back into Brothers Grimm with its epic reimagining of the Snow White fable. This time, in “Snow White and the Huntsman,” instead of a chirpy adolescent and snaggletoothed witch we get a warrior princess and sexy, power-mad vampira.

Snow White and the Huntsman makes room for some of these stirrings within its heavy-handed ''revisionist'' take. The best thing in the movie by far is Charlize Theron's performance as the scheming, snarling Queen Ravenna, who is under an empowering...

Rupert Sanders's Snow White and the Hunstman updates a day in the life of Sharon Stone the fairest fairy tale of them all with more-grim-than-Grimm conviction. Much detail is lavished on the medieval setting, a mud-and-shit-everywhere nightmare that...

Even before a character declares that Snow White is “The One” — that is, the only person with a chance to defeat the evil queen and restore harmony in the kingdom — there was a Matrix/Keanu Reeves vibe to the central performance of Kristen Stewart in...

In Snow White and the Huntsman, a series of characters insist over and over again that the titular princess is "very special" or "the one" or "the only one who can save us;" it's a classic instance of telling instead of showing that reveals a lot about...

A lavishly mounted saga which effortlessly blends style with substance, Snow White and the Huntsman will likely appeal to multiplex goers as well as the cognoscente.

It's all very different from Julia Roberts's turn in Mirror Mirror this year. Roberts's queen was the fairytale equivalent of a Beverly Hills princess suffering the usual phobias provoked by the ravages of age, and it was lit by cheering touches of...

Despite its stunning visual effects work, Snow White and the Huntsman is something of a disappointment and would happily sit alongside the recent version of Red Riding Hood in a double bill of underwhelming fairytale movies.

เป็นเรื่องที่สองแล้วสำหรับการนำนิทาน Snow White กลับมาเล่าใหม่ในปี 2012 นี้ โดยใช้ชื่อ Snow White and the Huntsman ที่ออกมาแนวดาร์คแฟนตาซีกว่าฉบับก่อนหน้านี้มาก หนังนำเราไปอาณาจักรแห่งหนึ่งที่ราชินีแม่มดผู้ชั่วร้ายยึดอำนาจ เมื่ออำนาจของนางเริ่มอ่อนแอลง มี

Every few years, some bright spark at a Hollywood studio thinks of revisiting the classic fairytales, giving them a modern twist and making them ‘relevant’. The results are rarely pretty – anyone recall ‘Snow White: A Tale of Terror’?...

Naturally, it begins with “once upon a time”. And yes, along the way there’s romance, a poisoned apple, a stimulating smooch and a queen with a heart as black as coal.

Never in our farthest imaginings did we envision Snow White to be an ass-kicking warrior princess who would lead an entire army into battle, but that’s the reason why first-time feature film director Rupert Sanders’ interpretation of one of the...

I can still recall how the syrupy texture of Adriana Caselotti's fanciful aspirations, surrounded by seven attentive dwarves, filled up the cheerful frames of the Disney classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White's romantic impulses are so...

AFTER Marvel Avengers Assemble, here comes the year’s second big pre-summer blockbuster.Once again it stars beefy Chris Hemsworth – this time as The Huntsman instead of Thor – but don’t expect him to deserve a medal.

Make no mistake: Snow White and the Huntsman is terrific filmmaking. It is visually stunning, with many sequences of staggering beauty. It has a satisfying, classically three-act structurem, surprisingly interesting characters, excellent music and...

A beautiful princess – as white as Snow, with lips as red as blood – has a step-mother who is after her life. Everyone knows the story of the damsel in distress, Snow White. After Mirror Mirror, the comical version of Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs...

Snow White and the Huntsman, the latest cinematic incarnation of the medieval German fairy tale, hews close in tone to the version told by the Grimm Brothers in the early 19th century, but adds plenty of modern action and bluster to bring the story...

There's an oddly over-serious tone to this fairy tale, as if the filmmakers thought they were making a massive action epic on par with The Lord of the Rings. But the plot has all the complexity of, well, a bedtime story. And a little more camp attitude...

AFTER Mirror Mirror misfired at the box office here comes Hollywood’s second bash at turning Snow White into a blockbuster queen.Snow White And The Huntsman is a much more muscular affair as it turns the fairytale princess (Kristen Stewart) into...

Ticking both boxes, Rupert Sanders’ Brothers Grimm reboot features an extraordinary troupe of UK males (Hoskins, Winstone, McShane etc) – as the dwarves! And for an hour, it’s as much fun to watch as they are, bickering and boozing like old muckers.