Mashing together a century of cinema’s monsters and horror literature even before that, nobody’s gonna say about The Bride! that it doesn’t come to play, and play hard—nowhere more emphatic than in ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal's movie is a scrappy feminist take-off on the "Frankenstein" myth that could have used more storytelling ...
Ambition can be a curse as much as a blessing. And it dooms The Bride!, a revisionist take on James Whale’s 1935 Universal ...
Jessie Buckley commands Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride,' but the feminist horror movie is both conspicuously DC-coded and ...
Starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, 'The Bride!' is a bold retelling of 'Bride of Frankenstein' from writer-director ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts. But it’s alive, writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s imaginative adaptation of the Frankenstein story, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, leaves its ...
At the center of “The Bride!” is Buckley, who by the film’s second weekend in theaters is likely to be a newly minted Oscar-winner. While the anguished mother of “Hamnet” is quite a different role ...
The Bride is a spectacular, wonderful, fascinating mess.
As the author’s non-consensual time share takes hold, Ida writhes on the dinner table. Buckley, an actor capable of seemingly ...
“A lumbering assortment of various parts poorly stitched together and bursting at the seams” is an apt description of both Frankenstein’s monster and writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s very loose ...
The Bride! is prompting questions from audiences curious about whether the film includes any additional scenes after the ...