Why The Bride! Bombed At The Box Office

"The Bride," written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Jessie Buckley, flopped at the box office. Why? Watch our ...

The Bride! mistakes female rage for female depth

If there were a checklist of things female characters are supposed to do in order to be "empowered," The Bride! ticks them all. And yet.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! Is a monstrous mess

Jessie Buckley achieves such a fine and daring visual effect as the reanimated Bride that for a little while there, I thought writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal might really have locked into something ...
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'The Bride!' blows up the usual 'Frankenstein' formula – Review

'The Bride!' is loosely inspired by Mary Shelley's novel 'Frankenstein.' The film starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale arrives in theaters Friday, March 6. Maggie Gyllenhaal's wildly imaginative ...
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‘The Bride!’ review: Buckley gives another monster performance in wild romp

On March 15, Jessie Buckley almost surely will be presented with the Academy Award for Best Actress for her terrific ...

‘The Bride!’ Is a Mad Monster Party

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) ...