Snow White (2025)
- Gus Keller
- Mar 21
- 1 min read

Snow White is a product with a story shoved in. Though the script gestures to themes and drama, it doesn't meaningfully engage with those concepts. Instead, it muddles recycled material around underdeveloped updates. Many characters disappear for long stretches. Messages are bluntly set up before superficially paying off. Without internal conflicts, layers, or arcs, protagonists are flat. The modernized romance mostly seems cosmetic. There's predictability, unearned triumph, easy resolution, and exposition dumps. Despite quality singing plus sincere undercurrents, the acting is confined to feeling sanitized and even wooden. Thus, Snow White doesn't commit to anything genuine.
Technically, Snow White is impenetrably sterile. Whether it's set pieces, tone, or style, the direction is mundane. Despite golden lighting, its cinematography has bland contrast. Because of the meandering structure, its editing struggles to mount momentum. Appropriate genre elements plus touches of emphasis build the soundscape. The music combines recognizable classics with decent new songs. Its production design chooses to serve merchandising over the story through distracting homages and artificial environments. The cast offers solid fame, fit, and diversity. Its effects are suffocating with uncanny CGI at every turn. Overall, Snow White fails to artistically justify itself.
Writing: 3/10
Direction: 2/10
Cinematography: 5/10
Acting: 5/10
Editing: 4/10
Sound: 7/10
Score/Soundtrack: 7/10
Production Design: 2/10
Casting: 7/10
Effects: 3/10
Overall Score: 4.5/10
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