Snow White

To be fair—and fair is a word of double importance in Disney’s live-action remake of its first animated feature—a 2025 version of “Snow White” is as thorny as those wildly gnarled trees that keep grabbing Snow White (Rachel Zegler) when she’s trying to run away from the huntsman ordered to kill her. The Grimm brothers’ story was written more than 200 years ago. The Disney movie came out almost 90 years ago, in 1937. Even those who do not consider themselves especially “woke” might be troubled by a heroine who waits to be rescued, singing “Some Day My Prince Will Come” as she gazes into the wishing well, merrily keeps house for seven dwarfs, with a mute one named Dopey, and is awakened by a non-consensual kiss from a prince she has never seen. But there is still enormous affection for the original film, and audiences will want its essential elements re-created.