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 ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! swings for a radical, genre-bending reinvention of Bride of Frankenstein. But the result is a messy, overstuffed film that makes an awkward attempt at feminist relevance ...

The Bride!, a modern retelling of The Bride of Frankenstein, takes massive swings in terms of performances, plotting and ...

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 ...

Mashing together a century of cinema’s monsters and horror literature even before that, nobody’s gonna say about The Bride! that it doesn’t come to play, and play hard—nowhere more emphatic than in ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s follow-up to “The Lost Daughter” is an incomprehensible movie mash-up.

Jessie Buckley goes big in The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal's messy, audacious punk rock monster mash that overcomes its flaws ...

The film stars Jessie Buckley as a woman who is murdered and then brought back to life as the companion of Frankenstein's ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal had earned a little currency as a filmmaker and wanted to make something big. Something epic. Something honest. Something that wouldn’t just hit a vein, as she’d done with her first ...

Jessie Buckley commands Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride,' but the feminist horror movie is both conspicuously DC-coded and ...

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