Here comes the motherf–ing Bride!” author Mary Shelley roars directly down the barrel in the opening minutes of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s batty, brainy, and beautiful dissection of The Bride of ...

The film stars Jessie Buckley as a woman who is murdered and then brought back to life as the companion of Frankenstein's monster.

Mashing together a century of cinema’s monsters and horror literature even before that, nobody’s gonna say about The Bride! that it doesn’t come to play, and play hard—nowhere more emphatic than in ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a riot grrrl manifesto comedy.

One good thing that can be said of Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" — a movie not overburdened with good things — is that it ...

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

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s imaginative adaptation of the Frankenstein story, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, leaves its premise and its principles undeveloped.

Jessie Buckley goes big in The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal's messy, audacious punk rock monster mash that overcomes its flaws with boldness. Here's our review.

Jessie Buckley commands Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride,' but the feminist horror movie is both conspicuously DC-coded and ...

Meanwhile, Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) has become so agonizingly lonely in his century of undead existence that he seeks out the eccentric Dr. Euphronius (a wonderfully wry Annette Bening) ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's movie is a scrappy feminist take-off on the "Frankenstein" myth that could have used more storytelling juice.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” imagines an empowered mate for the monster. We look back at other memorable cinematic ...