'Snow White' stars Rachel Zegler as the fearless princess. She's the latest actress to put her spin on the ever-evolving role.

The reviews are in for the new live-action Snow White, and they’re pretty enchanting.

For all the controversy leading up to the film’s March 21 release — largely around star Rachel Zegler declaring herself proud to modernize a cartoon character Disney first brought to the big screen in 1937 or for the simple fact that she’s Latina — the vibe from critics seems to be that it’s better than expected.

It’s been called a “vibrant retelling” (The Hollywood Reporter), “a spirited and sweet spin on classic material that deserves kudos” (IndieWire) and “one of the better live-action adaptations of a Disney animated feature” (Variety).

While a corner of the internet went sideways about the possibility of a fairy-tale character becoming contemporized in any way, “In the end, the overall damage from Snow White’s liberation struggle proves minimal,” the New York Times review noted. “She still smiles and sings, whistles and works, rejects evil and rescues seven potential incels. Snow White no longer trills about a prince, true, but heteronormativity still has its happy ending.”

To be fair, it’s not all love. The Toronto Star called the remake “a bad idea and worse movie.” Gal Gadot, who plays the evil queen, got some pretty bad reviews.

The story of Snow White is one that has shifted and changed through the years. It began as a German fairy tale, dating back to the 19th century. It was first published in 1812 by the Brothers Grimm, who took different versions of fairy tales, compiled them and created stories. The borrowing and reshaping continued when the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs play debuted on Broadway in 1912 and again when Disney turned it into an animated film also titled Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which became the best-known version of the story.

Since that early film’s success, the story and its heroine have had many different lives on the big screen — and small (shout out to TV’s Once Upon a Time, featuring Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow) — with Hollywood stars including Kristen Stewart and Lily Collins bringing the character to life in rom-coms, dramas and even horror films. Here are some of the iterations.

Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)

The fairy tale had a grim redo for this adventure/fantasy version starring Sigourney Weaver as the evil stepmother Claudia and Monica Keena as the Snow-inspired Lilli. It starts with the tragic death of a pregnant woman, whose husband has to tear her baby from her womb, and goes on to have a stillbirth scene. Lilli falls for one of the “miners,” and he saves her after dislodging a piece of rotten apple that was stuck in her throat (versus a nonconsensual kiss).

Lilli also tries to escape Claudia’s attempts to murder her — Weaver gets quite a scary makeover — and they have a showdown with mirror glass shards and a burning bed. We’ll just say it: It’s freakier than a mildly “woke” Snow White.

Snow White: The Fairest of Them All (2001)

This TV movie was touted as a Snow White viewers had “never seen before” — with “more magic, more adventure and more evil.” It doesn’t stray that far from the classic story of Miranda Richardson’s Queen Elspeth being jealous of pretty Snow White (Kristin Kreuk) and ordering her death. In the woods, the outcast befriends “Sunday,” one of a group of seven men who take her in. Her new friends are named after days of the week, and when together, they can transform into a rainbow and teleport (with very 2001 special effects). The genie type character, Green-Eyed One, is less charming. There are also mirrors, poison apples and Snow White dying and being revived by a kiss from a prince. Only the prince is in bear form and licks the ice, which is frankly weirder than anything related to Zegler’s modern Snow White.

Sydney White (2007)

This was no She’s the Man or Easy A. The teen rom-com flopped at the box office despite having aughts superstar Amanda Bynes as the lead. Set at a college in that era, Bynes is Sydney, who falls into a beef with student body prez Sara Paxton’s Rachel (the evil queen-type character). There are “seven dorks,” not dwarves, who live in a frat house, a computer hacker trying to spread a “Poison Apple” virus and Matt Long’s Tyler Prince waking up Sydney with a kiss — when she almost oversleeps and misses a debate. At the end, they all live “dorkily ever after,” Bynes says in the voiceover.

Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

While what some of us will remember most about this film has nothing to do with the plot, this version, starring Stewart as the title character, Charlize Theron as the evil Queen Ravenna and Chris Hemsworth as Eric the Huntsman, was a darker, more dramatic take on the fairy tale. As the story goes, to become immortal, Ravenna had to consume the heart of Snow White, and it comes down to a battle royale between the women. Snow White is a badass in armor, getting into a sword fight with her stepmother in a scene with blood, fire and death. A box office success, the live-action film spawned a sequel, The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016).

Mirror Mirror (2012)

It appears 2012 was the year of the Snow White remakes. This fantasy/comedy, which was somewhat of a box office disappointment, is totally campy and starred Collins as the main character and Julia Roberts as the insecure, wicked enchantress. Snow White’s dad doesn’t come home, and the queen keeps her locked away in the castle (her skin is fair because she hasn’t seen the sun). They both set their sights on the same guy, played by Armie Hammer pre-cannibalism scandal (no, that’s not a movie plot). Roberts gets in many of her signature laughs despite being evil and doesn’t meet that horrible of an end (she just gets a lot of wrinkles, which is traumatic for her). Collins charms and has a fantastic wardrobe, a prelude to her Emily in Paris.

Snow White: A Deadly Summer (2012)

A horror version of Snow White? Why, yes, there’s that too. This straight-to-DVD telling of the stepmama drama has a Brady Bunch star (Maureen McCormick) as the evildoer (Eve) and Shanley Caswell as Snow White. Snow White is an aughts-era troubled teen sent by her stepmother and father to a discipline camp, where she’s medicated and taught to be more compliant. It makes us think of the residential school attended by Paris Hilton in real life, making it all kinds of awful.

Disney’s live-action Snow White arrives in theaters on March 21.