The Bride! review: Send Jessie Buckley's Frankenstein monstrosity back to the grave

The Bride! review. Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale's reimagining of the Frankenstein myth is a rotting corpse of ...

Here comes ‘The Bride!’ and she’ll give you a headache

Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale star in this occasionally clever yet punishing hot mess from writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Movie Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride!' is a Frankenstein riff with a pulse

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many ...
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‘The Bride!’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Goes For Baroque in Messy, Misguided Post-Modern Monster Movie [D]

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.

‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley Is a Scream in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Gothic Gangster Romance

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s glorious, (re)invigorating ‘Zombie and Clyde’ co-stars Christian Bale as one of the best Frankenstein Monsters.

‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Get Their Freak on in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Bludgeoning Feminist Frankenstein Spin

Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal also appear in this punk-rock exhumation of a character ...

The director and ‘The Bride!’ Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley dare you to meet your monster

Maggie Gyllenhaal turns “The Bride!” into a big, wild studio film that reimagines the Bride of Frankenstein as a voice of ...

‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Are Magnetic Monsters in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Lumbering Punk Horror Trip

Maggie Gyllenhaal's movie is a scrappy feminist take-off on the "Frankenstein" myth that could have used more storytelling ...

‘The Bride!’ review: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punk rock ‘Frankenstein’ remix

Here comes the motherfucking Bride!” cries Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) at the beginning of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s messy-if-inventive riff on the Frankenstein story. If that ...

‘The Bride!’ Is a Mad Monster Party

Meanwhile, Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) has become so agonizingly lonely in his century of undead existence that he seeks out the eccentric Dr. Euphronius (a wonderfully wry Annette Bening) ...

‘The Bride!’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Graverobs Mary Shelley for a Wokified, ‘Joker’-fied Folie-à-Deux Zonked on Its Own Rage

Jessie Buckley commands Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride,' but the feminist horror movie is both conspicuously DC-coded and ...