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

The psychotherapist, Mark Minaev, is studying a strange case in his practice. His patient Mikhail Anipkin, a video cameraman by profession, suffers from schizophrenia. The disease gives rise to rare branches. The so-called conversion disorder. The psyche gives the body a signal to play its games. In this case, the patient claims that there was an atomic war, and he took refuge in a bunker...
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
Marvel’s animated show What If...? ended last week, so let’s go back and look at all of the different universes shown and rank each episode from worst to best!
GOAT (2026) opens to the chanting of a crowd: "Roots run deep!" The rest of the film goes on to echo that sentiment, offering gorgeous animation and a heartfelt story along the way.
Crazy Rich Asians. The title is tacky, but the actual movie is both heartwarming and cosmopolitan. After all, it takes place in Singapore!
Based on the bestselling memoir, viewers get a glimpse of the challenges of autistic people.
An aspect of She-Ra that I find refreshing is even though a large portion of the cast is on the LGBTQ+ Spectrum, being gay is never mentioned. While this might initially sound like a negative thing, in the show’s land of Etheria being on the gay spectrum is shown to be so common and normalized that straight isn’t the default. As much as there is to appreciate about narratives revolving around the obstacles that may come from being non-heteronormative, it’s nice to get immersed in a world where no one bats an eye at all to any sort of differing identity.