Maggie Gyllenhaal is back with a new movie. The actress and director is a Hollywood mainstay, having built a career in front of the camera for decades. In 2021, she released her first feature film, ...

And beyond her protagonist, Gyllenhaal’s daring script contains a handful of radical conceits, from making a character of Mary Shelley herself, to setting her action in Prohibition-era America, to ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a riot grrrl manifesto comedy. Actress and wannabe cineaste Maggie Gyllenhaal confuses her feminist motivation with artistic creativity. In her script and direction of the ...

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 ...