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 is a beautiful Frankenstein story that captures what going to the movies is all about; here's ...
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.
"The Bride!," in theaters Friday, incorporates social justice, dance and even Mary Shelley herself in a bold new take on "The ...
Jessie Buckley goes big in The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal's messy, audacious punk rock monster mash that overcomes its flaws ...
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The bride unalive

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 ...
Never mind spare body parts. In Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, our eponymous newlywed is composed of three entirely separate and competing personalities. There is Ida, a seeming gangster’s mol ...
Starring Oscar-nominee Jessie Buckley and Oscar-winner Christian Bale, “The Bride!” is a new take from director Maggie ...