Snow White, Rewritten in a Minor Key
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.

Patrick Page (born April 27, 1962) is an American actor, low bass singer, and playwright. He has originated the roles of Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, The Grinch in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical and Hades in Hadestown. He also played Menenius in Red Bull Theater's Coriolanus.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
Spirited inverts the tropes of the holiday musical genre to update an age-old tale for 2022. It's a paean to those who make grand spectacles possible.