The Bride!, like Hamlet, begins with a knock-knock joke. A ghost appears, and talks of being trapped by a story that has festered in her brain, like a tumor, for centuries. This is Mary Shelley ...

Verdict: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s "The Bride!" reimagines Bride of Frankenstein as a gothic romance about identity, agency and love. Set in 1930s Chicago, it follows resurrected Ida and lonely Frank in a ...

“The Bride!” opens somewhere unknowable — a vignetted dark space in which the specter of Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) feels like she’s lit by her own unquenchable desire for mischief, and a version ...

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 ...

The Bride! is a swooning, soot-streaked fever dream of a movie, the kind that feels less like a retelling and more like a resurrection. Written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, this American Gothic ...

The writer-director also explains the offbeat 1930s setting of her 'Bride of Frankenstein' riff, which hits theaters in March. Reading time 4 minutes Last year, creature-feature fans got a lavishly ...

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. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

If you love classic movies, THE BRIDE! is pure delight, fun with a brain that is a treat deluxe for those who love both classic movies and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s original book “Frankenstein.” ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s monster mash The Bride! opened in theaters last Friday, but it’s already become a living nightmare for the acclaimed writer-director. Forbes‘The Bride!’: Stars Who Played Bride Of ...

The Bride! arrives this week, and the delay in its release—it was originally slated for fall 2025—makes perfect sense. That’s not just because the shift put distance between Guillermo del Toro’s ...