Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley in The Bride! Film Critic From our 21st-century perch, most contemporary women have no trouble believing that the great women writers of the 19th century got a raw ...

"Here comes the motherf***ing bride!" insists a spectral Mary Shelley, the quasi-narrator of Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!, who lives solely in the conscience of our titular character. Frankenstein's ...

The Bride! is in theaters on March 6. Frankenstein's lightning-streaked bride has been an enduring image on screen ever since James Whale, the director of the original 1931 Frankenstein film, ...

In some alternate universe, there’s probably a simpler, more straightforward version of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein spin-off movie The Bride! that’s ...

He’s a reanimated corpse, cursed to wander the land in a state of existential misery for centuries! She’s a former moll for a two-bit gangster, brought back from the dead to become his soulmate! You ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The Bride! also earned a “fresh” critic score from Caryn James of the BBC, who writes in her ...

Coherence is not a strong suit of "The Bride!," director Maggie Gyllenhaal's reimagining of the Bride of Frankenstein story as a German expressionist/ punk rock/ riot grrrl/ girlboss/ lovers on the ...

If you love classic movies, THE BRIDE! is pure delight, fun with a brain that is a treat deluxe for those who love both classic movies and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s original book “Frankenstein.” ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Bride of Frankenstein tale The Bride!, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, will become the latest film to feature the classic character when it opens on the big screen this ...