Snow White (PG)

Rachel Zegler’s wide-eyed Snow White doesn’t just hope her prince will come; she wants to obtain independence, and be a good leader for her people.

She’s up against Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, cinched tight in jewels and slinking around being unrepentantly evil. Snow White loses her saintly parents, but not before her father has remarried. She is then put to work as a maid in her own palace before the queen becomes jealous of her beauty and orders her execution – only for Snow White to escape and take refuge in the mines with a bunch of CGI dwarves.

What's so unique about this live-action version of the 1937 original is that it seems as if half of Disney wanted to make an old-fashioned tribute to a feudal fairy tale, and the other half wanted to make a revisionist, Marxist call-to-arms. Some of these updates are for the better; the original’s overly simplistic story has been given some much-needed depth. And although Gadot cannot sing (and still can’t act) to save her life, Zegler’s natural talent, thankfully, shines through.