Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bride and Jessie Buckley
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Maggie Gyllenhaal's radical take on the Bride of Frankenstein story takes a middle finger to the patriarchy. Plus there are musical numbers!
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The Bride! review: Maggie Gyllenhaal doubles down on everything Poor Things did with Frankenstein
Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley star in this wild, messy rewrite of Bride of Frankenstein, by way of Bonnie and Clyde, punk rock, and Lady Gaga.
Part 'Bonnie and Clyde', part 'Joker', all nonsense, 'The Bride!' is a misfire in practically every direction and we still weren’t able to dodge the bullets.
When the opening frames of The Bride! displays introductory text establishing that Mary Shelley wrote her classic Gothic tragedy, Frankenstein, on a dare, it feels like needless table-setting.