REVIEW: Kristen Stewart Makes a Feisty But Boring Princess in Snow White and the Huntsman

Why can?t heroines just be heroines anymore, instead of micromanaged personalities who may as well have the words ?Role Model? tattooed across their foreheads? That?s the fate suffered by poor Kristen Stewart as the warrior princess athlete orphan Christ figure Snow White in Snow White and the Huntsman. She?s not just Joan of Arc — she?s Joan of Archetypes.

Moviegoers who love Kristen Stewart — and they include a distinctive subgroup who avoid the Twilight pictures as a vampire eschews sunlight — have long been waiting for Snow White and the Huntsman, hoping to see this enormously appealing actress in a role that is, at last, worthy of her. I think Stewart has held her ground admirably enough in the Twilight pictures, particularly the profoundly crazy-ass Breaking Dawn ? Part I, which gives her character something to do other than swan about moodily. (They don?t call her Bella Swan for nothing.) She also made a fine and fierce Joan Jett in Floria Sigismondi?s The Runaways. But Snow White and the Huntsman, the debut feature of Rupert Sanders, does her no favors. This Snow White is clearly designed to be a young woman of agency, not a girly-girl victim who waits around for a prince to save her. The problem is that she?s so admirable, so aggressively self-reliant, so beloved and respected by little forest animals as well as simple-minded villagers, that she barely has time to be a woman. Stewart is laced so tightly into her character that she can hardly breathe, let alone give a performance. Luckily, Charlize Theron — as the really, really wicked Queen Ravenna — is on hand to give us something to watch, and boy, does she.

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