The Bride! is in theaters on March 6. Frankenstein's lightning-streaked bride has been an enduring image on screen ever since James Whale, the director of the original 1931 Frankenstein film, ...

One of the biggest surprises about Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! is just how fun it is. In some ways, it feels like comfort food filmmaking. I wondered how self-serious the movie would be, and the answer ...

In an era of cinema often defined by safe reboots and sterile franchises, Maggie Gyllenhaal has delivered a jagged, neon-soaked lightning bolt to the heart of the zeitgeist. The Bride! isn’t just a ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride is a captivating movie. Right from its very first moments, this film knows how to hook its viewers, immerse them in its world, and so thoroughly entertain them that ...

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 ...

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 alive. Just months after Guillermo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are all the hallmarks of the darkly romantic genre: gorgeous, decrepit buildings, strikes of lightning, ghostly possessions, ...

It took more than 50 years, but we’ve finally gotten a successor to Mel Brooks’s “Young Frankenstein” that focuses on the Bride of F. There’s even another formal-wear rendition of “Puttin’ on the Ritz ...

The Bride! starts with Buckley conveying Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, in an inspired sequence that is best left to be discovered than analyzed in a review like this. We meet Buckley’s ...

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 time-shifting, genre-hopping riff on Mary Shelley’s creation stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as outlaws in love. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

And beyond her protagonist, Gyllenhaal’s daring script contains a handful of radical conceits, from making a character of Mary Shelley herself, to setting her action in Prohibition-era America, to ...