Snow White film review — fairytale made real or poisoned apple?

Can you find it in your heart to pity Disney? Me neither. But if ever a film could make you feel sorry for all involved, it is the new Snow White, the animated classic now mostly reimagined as live action. Of course, whatever the company does is grist to the long American culture war. But there were always going to be particular issues when reworking this legacy property for contemporary tastes — the deeply pre-feminist 1937 fairytale once described by Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage as a “backward story of seven dwarfs living in the cave”.