The most impressive thing about The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal's feminist revamp of The Bride of Frankenstein, is how thoroughly ill-conceived it is. This movie fails at everything. There is not a ...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein focused on Victor Frankenstein, as well as the creature he created, but what about the creature’s long-awaited companion that never was? In The Bride!, director Maggie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the end of Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein’s monster yearned for companionship, begging his master to create him not just a ...

In a world of hot monsters and messy love affairs, gothic romance films have truly reclaimed their stake in the hearts of modern viewers. From The Creature in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, to the ...

In “The Bride!” Maggie Gyllenhaal fails to breathe new life into a classic source material. Landing in theaters March 6, actress and filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sophomore directorial project trips ...

Fast forward to 2026. Earlier this year, Guillermo del Toro gave us Frankenstein, which was a set design masterpiece. And now Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride has just hit the silver screens. A two- hour ...

The premise of The Bride! is hidden from its advertising. Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal opens on Mary Shelley (an acidic Jessie Buckley) stuck in a black-and-white purgatory of sorts, only her ...

No less imaginative is the importation of the story from Europe to midcentury America. This allows the film to include among its sights rollicking nightclubs, decadent parties, and grand movie palaces ...

Even before Ida (Jessie Buckley) becomes a black-bile-spewing revenant, you wouldn’t call her a proper lady. At a shady gin joint in Chicago, 1936, she’s vacant-eyed, slurring, and lurching in her ...