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 ...
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 ...
Director Maggie Gyllenhaal reinvents a classic monster story in ‘The Bride!’ but sewing together different genres like body parts doesn’t always work. ‘The Bride!’ is a lot. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second ...
Jessie Buckley just won an Oscar for Hamnet, and now you can watch her in a very different type of role in The Bride!—a new gothic romance loosely based on the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein and the ...
On March 15, Jessie Buckley almost surely will be presented with the Academy Award for Best Actress for her terrific performance in last year’s “Hamnet.” She’s already getting a jump on the race for ...
Bursting at your neck staples to see Maggie Gyllenhaal's reimagining of The Bride of Frankenstein starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as the undead lovers? The new movie The Bride! is already ...
A 1930s gothic romance set in Chicago? Say less. Maggie Gyllenhaal puts a feral, punk rock spin on a beloved cultural figure in her forthcoming film The Bride!. The actor let her creativity run wild ...
One of the biggest surprises about Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! is just how fun it is. In some ways, it feels like comfort food filmmaking. I wondered how self-serious the movie would be, and the answer ...
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 ...