If there is one thing that can be said about The Bride!, it is that no one can accuse Maggie Gyllenhaal of not swinging for the fences. Gyllenhaal’s second directorial feature after her acclaimed 2021 ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! has hit theaters, and it takes viewers on a wild ride as Christian Bale's Frankenstein finds love with Jessie Buckley's Bride. Written and directed by the 48-year-old ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The Bride of Frankenstein… What’s her story? Taking place in 1930’s Chicago, The Bride! follows Frank (Christian Bale), who might be more famously known as Frankenstein’s monster.

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 lying on the table in the lab - Warner Bros. Let's be clear on one thing: "The Bride!" is a wild ride. Courtesy of director Maggie Gyllenhaal, it offers up a frenzied take on the "Bride of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Bride! starts with Buckley conveying Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, in an inspired sequence that is best left to be discovered than analyzed in a review like this. We meet Buckley’s ...