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Review: Disney’s live-action ‘Snow White’ remake is a bad idea and worse movie

Rachel Zegler is the best thing about it. Gal Gadot, as the evil Queen, is a disaster.

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Andrew Burnap and Rachel Zegler star in “Snow White.” 


Feuding stars, costly reshoots, political posturing, calls for boycott: a documentary about the troubled production and cursed promotion of Disney’s new live-action “Snow White” would undoubtedly be more exciting than the finished product. If the 1937 animated original is the sort of movie that lives forever because of its iconic imagery, this remake’s only chance at enduring is as a case study in how a profoundly bad idea can be made worse by hapless and compromised execution. There’s nothing magical in Marc Webb’s movie, but it nevertheless feels uncanny; spending $250 million to make a film in which absolutely nothing works is a kind of dark art in and of itself.

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Adam Nayman is a ɫɫÀ²-based critic, lecturer and author. He is a freelance contributor for the Star. Follow him on Twitter: .

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