These decadent yet chintzy nostalgia pieces with delusions of forward momentum once ruled the box office. Not anymore.

Whenever Show White needs to prove that it’s in on the joke, that it understands that princess movies aren’t realistic, it becomes an empty nothing, a movie far, far worse than Shrek.

EXCLUSIVE: Heading into the weekend, Disney’s Snow White was being nicknamed Snow Woke in vitriol online circles, which ...