Director Maggie Gyllenhaal shares how she adapted the bride's iconic look to reclaim the character's voice—both visually and figuratively.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a hot mess — both the title character and the film. It’s a wildly ambitious project with a distinctive female lens, and while it’s rife with social commentary, ...

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

The Bride! is guilty of overindulging in feminist buzzwords and girl power imagery; it even has Buckley's Bride jarringly ...

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

Most recently, the Bride, as a dramatic character, has been part of a series of creative reimaginings through an explicitly feminist lens. For instance, the dark coming of age comedy, Lisa ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal Stitched Together The Most Fun, Feral And Fantastic Frankenstein Movie Yet Frankenstein Couldn't ‘Lick ...

Experts break down the history of Frankenstein’s Bride, from Mary Shelley to Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!,” and why the ...

More than anything else, The Bride! feels like the lost remnants of a pre-vibe shift culture, the last vestige of a fully ...

This is a rare and atypically fulsome outing for The Bride herself, a macabre mate for the lonely monster, who was literally ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s time-shifting, genre-hopping riff on Mary Shelley’s creation stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as ...

Just months after Guillermo del Toro presented his lavish “Frankenstein,” Gyllenhaal, in her follow-up to her excellent 2021 ...