Lily’s in-laws urge her to shun Snow Flower, a typhoid epidemic breaks out, and eventually the Taiping Rebellion begins, the historical import of which is treated as secondary to the dramatic ...

On paper, "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" looks like the kind of production that has "Oscar bait" written all over it. It springs from a respected literary source, Lisa See's 1995 novel. It ...

The central story turns on Snow Flower and Lily, who were paired as laotong — the formal name for such arranged friendships between girls — when they were just children in the early 1800s. It ...

Whenever Nina/Lily and Sophia/Snow Flower are together they look like two women waiting uncomfortably outside an office for the same job interview. Despite its promising premise, ...

Emotionally overwrought and fleetingly campy, any revelation Snow Flower has into the strange rituals of 19th-century China tends to pale next to its excessive lily gilding.

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Every so often a movie comes along that makes you wonder whether or not other people are actually watching the same movie you ...