Maggie Gyllenhaal's latest film, 'The Bride!', explores agency, identity and feminism in the messy 1930s world of monsters and men.

In the opening beats of The Bride!, the second feature written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the ghost of Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) mutters to herself from some dark corner of the ...

Casey Chong with seven great portrayals of Frankenstein’s Monster… Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, has inspired countless adaptations, with hundreds ...

Part 'Bonnie and Clyde', part 'Joker', all nonsense, 'The Bride!' is a misfire in practically every direction and we still weren’t able to dodge the bullets.

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

In some alternate universe, there’s probably a simpler, more straightforward version of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein spin-off movie The Bride! that’s currently getting called a must-see ...

"The Oscars’ Best Actress frontrunner drops monstrous misfire," reads the headline of his mixed take, which notes that ...

Tim Burton has done it again. In a time when glossy CGI dominates the film industry, this visionary director has given us a blast from the past — claymation — without making it seem anachronistic or ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many ...

Meanwhile, Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) has become so agonizingly lonely in his century of undead existence that he seeks out the eccentric Dr. Euphronius (a wonderfully wry Annette Bening) ...

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

Starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, 'The Bride!' is a bold retelling of 'Bride of Frankenstein' from writer-director ...