The Bride is a spectacular, wonderful, fascinating mess.

The tremendous actor that he is, Christian Bale evokes surprising sympathy and gentleness in his role of the little-understood Frankenstein.

Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! makes multiple references to Frankenstein films of the past, but one Easter egg proves how smart she and her movie truly are.

She’s alive! Finally. When Maggie Gyllenhaal sat down to rewatch “The Bride of Frankenstein,” the 1935 James Whale classic, she wasn’t prepared for what she didn’t see. The Bride appears for only two ...

One good thing that can be said of Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" — a movie not overburdened with good things — is that it features a ferociously committed (or perhaps exhaustingly demented, your ...

Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale spark a feral, fascinating chemistry, though even their undead romance struggles to animate Maggie Gyllenhaal’s unruly feminist monster mash ...

The Bride doesn’t consent to be brought back after death, and in fact, doesn’t for much of the time know that’s what’s happened to her. The monster, who eventually opts to go by Frank, tells her she’s ...

Starring Oscar-nominee Jessie Buckley and Oscar-winner Christian Bale, “The Bride!” is a new take from director Maggie ...

And yet! Without the possession element, we would not be treated to Jessie Buckley flipping effortlessly between a Chicago ...

Yet through every iteration—the classic oater, the spaghetti Western, the revisionist epic, even the animated or musical detour—the core remains the same: characters, often wearing cowboy hats, in ...

Rachel Weisz, Leo Woodall, Jessica Henwick, Ellen Robertson, John Slattery Streaming on: Netflix Stories about the storied world of academia can be hit or miss, but using a liberal arts university as ...