"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 ...
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 ...
Here comes "The Bride!", Maggie Gyllenhaal's extremely messy, extremely inventive film that dares you to try to neatly fit it into one genre. It's a sort-of-musical, meta-sequel-reboot, comedy, love ...
J.E. Reich is a trans and Jewish contributor at MovieWeb whose tastes run from cozy British murder mysteries to prestige TV slowburns. Though their heart lies in writing about all things pop culture, ...
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 ...
The following contains spoilers for The Bride! At the red carpet premiere of her new movie The Bride!, writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal shared what initially inspired her to reimagine one of the most ...