Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second written and directed project, "The Bride!" hit U.S. theaters on March 6, bringing a fresh ...

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 I'll say this for it: It's alive. Just months after Guillermo ...

The Bride! is Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial sophomore following The Lost Daughter (2021). Jessie Buckley stars as the bride of Frankenstein who gets to tell her story. The film is riven with too ...

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 ...

Like Frankenstein's Monster, The Bride! is a combination of genres put together which isn't often coherent. Heavy snow warning as up to 30 inches to strike: 'Stay indoors' Appointee wants to replace ...

In “The Bride!” Maggie Gyllenhaal fails to breathe new life into a classic source material. Landing in theaters March 6, actress and filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sophomore directorial project trips ...

If you listened to the Throughline episode “Pride, Prejudice, and Peer Pressure” (https://n.pr/46gnvNo), on the enduring legacy of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, you may remember that hosts Rund ...

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 ...

With Bride of Frankenstein In 1935, director James Whale brought to life more than just a would-be wife for his first monstrous creation. He helped electrify a Hollywood playbook that Marvel, DC and ...

It’s alive, but it’s not exactly showing signs of life. Set in the 1930s, “The Bride!” follows a very lonely Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) and his undead love interest (Jessie Buckley) as ...

Titular punctuation is the bane of a movie critic’s existence. Is it 28 Days Later or 28 Days Later … ? Do we really have to put quotation marks around “Wuthering Heights,” no matter how often Emerald ...