内容摘要：A Palestinian, who was injured in an Israeli airstrike, is brought for treatment at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, Friday, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A Palestinian, who was injured in an Israeli airstrike, is brought for treatment at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, Friday, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

To be fair, for the Panthers, this is unprecedented levels of success.They have now played 11 playoff series since the start of the 2023 postseason — their first one with Matthew Tkachuk in a Florida sweater. They have won 10 of those series, only falling in the 2023 final to Vegas. They’re 41-21 in playoff games under coach Paul Maurice and actually have a better road record in those games (23-10) than they do at home (18-11).

“I didn’t even think about it,” Tkachuk said after the Carolina series ended. “Just reacted how I reacted. I mean, I think it was different a few years ago. I remember a few years ago it felt like such an accomplishment from where we were at one point. I know we talked about it last year. It’s part of the journey. And same way with this year. It’s all business, and we’ve got a bigger goal in mind.”So, of course, do the Oilers. And both teams surely expect the rematch to be a classic.“They’re a heck of a team,” Edmonton star Connor McDavid said in the on-ice televised ESPN interview Thursday night when asked about the Panthers. “Obviously, it’s their third finals. They’re a special group. We’re a special group. It’s going to be fun. Couldn’t ask for a better opportunity than to go up against the team that beat us last year. Really excited about it.”

The mind-games are already underway. Florida touched the Prince of Wales Trophy after winning the East in 2023 and lost the final; the Panthers didn’t touch the conference trophy in 2024 and won the Cup, and didn’t touch it on Wednesday either to preserve that tradition. In turn, the Oilers didn’t touch the West trophy last year — but McDavid grabbed it this year, trying to change up the Cup luck.When the East title series ended, Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour paid the Panthers — who won their first Cup last season — the ultimate compliment.

“They’re the standard now,” Brind’Amour said.

It has been a long time since the league has seen a run like this.But like scaffolding that’s been left up too long, the strain of renovation shows in Webb’s film, particularly in its awkward handling of Dopey, Sneezy and company. The seven dwarfs, like the fawns and squirrels, are rendered in CGI. You could argue that this acknowledges the artificiality of a dated and offensive trope. But it also gives “Snow White” an uncanny quality, with all human characters but the dwarfs being played by real people. As if to Band-Aid over this, one of the woodsmen is played by an actor of short stature (George Appleby) whose presence seems like yet another atonement, only one for this “Snow White,” not 1937’s.

You might be thinking: But what about the movie? The problem with “Snow White” is that you never stop thinking about these much-strategized and sometimes superficial efforts to recontextualize the original movie. Erin Cressida Wilson’s screenplay remakes Snow White’s story as less a princess awaiting her Prince Charming (the song “Someday My Prince Will Come” has been jettisoned) than an heir to a throne who loses her gumption. Though taught as a child to be “fair” as a leader by her father king (Hadley Fraser), Snow White has lost any ambition by the time Gadot’s Evil Queen takes over the kingdom.Gadot sinks her teeth into the Evil Queen, a spikey, slinky villain who moves with a metallic rustle (the costumes are by Sandy Powell). But she feels cut off from the movie, without the lines that would elevate her flamboyant performance into something memorable. The prince has been altogether scrubbed; instead Andrew Burnap plays the blandly cocksure bandit Jonathan who encourages Snow White not to wait for her father’s rescue.

Presumably one of the reasons to bring actors into remakes of animated classics would be to add a warm-blooded pulse to these characters. Zegler manages that, but everyone else in “Snow White” — mortal or CGI — is as stiff as could be. You’re left glumly scorekeeping the updates — one win here, a loss there — while pondering why, regardless of the final tally, recapturing the magic of long ago is so elusive.“Snow White,” a Walt Disney Co. release is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association for violence, some peril, thematic elements and brief rude humor. Running time: 109 minutes. Two stars out of four.