Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! has hit theaters, and it takes viewers on a wild ride as Christian Bale's Frankenstein finds love with Jessie Buckley's Bride. Written and directed by the 48-year-old ...

If you love classic movies, THE BRIDE! is pure delight, fun with a brain that is a treat deluxe for those who love both classic movies and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s original book “Frankenstein.” ...

The Bride lying on the table in the lab - Warner Bros. Let's be clear on one thing: "The Bride!" is a wild ride. Courtesy of director Maggie Gyllenhaal, it offers up a frenzied take on the "Bride of ...

Yeah, I stayed away from this one as long as I could until curiosity got the better of me, and I’ll be honest: Based on what I saw and how the film performed, I was afraid of this. After the numbers ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s exquisite reimagining of the Frankenstein legend is an exceptional monster movie and one of the year’s best films. Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" reimagines Frankenstein with punk, gore ...

Verdict: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s "The Bride!" reimagines Bride of Frankenstein as a gothic romance about identity, agency and love. Set in 1930s Chicago, it follows resurrected Ida and lonely Frank in a ...

And beyond her protagonist, Gyllenhaal’s daring script contains a handful of radical conceits, from making a character of Mary Shelley herself, to setting her action in Prohibition-era America, to ...

IN THE 2008 FILM BRONSON, the titular character, a prisoner played by Tom Hardy, is told by a visiting art teacher that his art—a series of faintly grotesque yet charmingly amateurish and immature ...

The Bride! starts with Buckley conveying Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, in an inspired sequence that is best left to be discovered than analyzed in a review like this. We meet Buckley’s ...