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 exquisite reimagining of the Frankenstein legend is an exceptional monster movie and one of the year's best films.

In Shelley’s novel, Dr. Frankenstein, suffering some tardy pangs of conscience, and eager to get rid of the problem he created, agrees to make his monster a mate if it means they disappear together.

As the film unfolds, she becomes empowered and inspires other women, who adopt her facial black mark and black lips, to follow suit. A cultural movement is born as they fight back. Meanwhile Frank’s ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s re-imagining of the Bride of Frankenstein boasts a mesmerising Jessie Buckley performance, but there's a ...

Gyllenhaal, who made her directorial debut with 2021’s “The Lost Daughter,” watched the 1935 movie, inspired by Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel “Frankenstein” ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s imaginative adaptation of the Frankenstein story, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, leaves its ...

The ‘Hamnet’ star reunites with her ‘Lost Daughter’ director on this playful and imaginative yet somewhat baffling experiment ...

Jessie Buckley goes big in The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal's messy, audacious punk rock monster mash that overcomes its flaws with boldness. Here's our review.

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

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 Jake Coyle in ...

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) ...