Impressive debut from one of the best filmmakers working today.

Snow White & the Huntsman is director Rupert Sanders' feature debut... and it shows. The pacing here (especially in the first act) is excruciating, the editing and camera work are distracting/annoying and the best parts of the film (the cast of dwarfs and Charlize Theron's queen) are criminally underused. You can tell Sanders has roots in commercials, because - as it stands - this film only ever really works for 30-seconds at a time. This is a boring, often ugly take on the Snow White tale, with a cast that deserves a much, much better movie.

No other film in the history of cinema has so accurately and honestly portrayed the youth of America. Linklater taps into the timeless core of the American teenager, exploring the boredom, restlessness, recklessness and cynicism that come with the realization that the American dream is farther from our grasps than promised; the realization that the future is now… and it kind of sucks.