‘The Bride!’ Is a Monster Mash-Up of Sex, Violence, Resistance, and Ideas. Many, Many Ideas

Maggie Gyllenhaal's radical take on the Bride of Frankenstein story takes a middle finger to the patriarchy. Plus there are ...

‘The Bride!’ review: Jessie Buckley’s latest is one of the worst movies I’ve seen in this job

Only seconds in, I regretted leaving my trusty torch and pitchfork at home because this bride should have been left at the ...

‘The Bride!’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Graverobs Mary Shelley for a Wokified, ‘Joker’-fied Folie-à-Deux Zonked on Its Own Rage

Jessie Buckley's anguished scream of a performance can't sustain an ambitious feminist opera that feels unintentionally, ...
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The Bride! First reactions are hyped: "What Joker: Folie a Deux wished it was"

Here comes... the next hit movie!
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A feminist 'Bride' for Frankenstein

Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s gonzo revisionist take on James Whale’s 1935 “Bride of Frankenstein” is a "hellzapoppin’ cacophony of silly ideas and mad movie love, overhauling the queer-coded ...

Movie review: 'The Bride!' is possessed by righteous power

"The Bride!," in theaters Friday, incorporates social justice, dance and even Mary Shelley herself in a bold new take on "The ...

The Bride! takes the Frankenstein story on a messy, manic, monstrous ride

Her version of The Bride! is much harder to parse, and much harder to swallow. It’s a provocation and a challenge — a movie ...
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Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Star In Original But Messy ‘The Bride!’

Director Maggie Gyllenhaal reinvents a classic monster story in ‘The Bride!’ but sewing together different genres like body ...