2016 · action · adventure · drama
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan1h 54m2016
As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna in Snowwhite and the Huntsman, and his forbidden lover, Sara—set out to stop them.
Our read: The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · adventure · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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