The Bride! review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's riff on the Bride of Frankenstein is 'exhilarating'

A ferocious Jessie Buckley and a heartbreaking Christian Bale star in a bold film of "huge scope and ambition" that is "loaded with surprises".

‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Are Magnetic Monsters in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Lumbering Punk Horror Trip

Maggie Gyllenhaal's movie is a scrappy feminist take-off on the "Frankenstein" myth that could have used more storytelling ...

The director and ‘The Bride!’ Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley dare you to meet your monster

Maggie Gyllenhaal turns “The Bride!” into a big, wild studio film that reimagines the Bride of Frankenstein as a voice of ...

Never ‘The Bride!’ Critics are split over Jessie Buckley’s pre-Oscar monster movie with Christian Bale

Critics are both hugging and hating on The Bride! in almost equal measure. The film currently has a 49 percent score on ...

‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Get Their Freak on in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Bludgeoning Feminist Frankenstein Spin

Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal also appear in this punk-rock exhumation of a character only briefly introduced in Mary Shelley’s novel.

What’s Jessie Buckley doing in a kinky, shallow spin on The Bride of Frankenstein?

Jessie Buckley, on the cusp of near-certain Oscar glory for Hamnet, is on altogether more berserk form in The Bride!. Wildly arresting as she is, she can’t stop it from being a confused mess. This is ...