It isn’t much of a hot take to suggest this, but the only classic Universal monster movie better than James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein is his 1935 sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein. In fact, the only ...

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Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a riot grrrl manifesto comedy.

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Despite its incendiary aspirations, the new film from Maggie Gyllenhaal is more pussy hat than punk rock.

The Bride!” — 2.5 stars 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 ...

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.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s imaginative adaptation of the Frankenstein story, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, leaves its premise and its principles undeveloped.

When the opening frames of The Bride! displays introductory text establishing that Mary Shelley wrote her classic Gothic tragedy, Frankenstein, on a dare, it feels like needless table-setting.