Monster Movie, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Bride
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That electric romance between Buckley’s Ida and Bale’s Frank resurrects ‘The Bride!’, even though its script is half-baked. Read our review.
The Bride! is Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial sophomore following The Lost Daughter (2021). Jessie Buckley stars as the bride of Frankenstein who gets to tell her story. The film is riven with too much indulgence and inconsistency to land anywhere bracing as a corrective expansion on the source text.
The Bride!, starring Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley, is a wild, unique adaptation that breathes new life into this story.
'The Bride!' is loosely inspired by Mary Shelley's novel 'Frankenstein.' The film starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale arrives in theaters Friday, March 6. Maggie Gyllenhaal's wildly imaginative movie puts a punk-rock twist on 'The Bride of Frankenstein.
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The Bride earns mixed first reviews, as critics call it everything from "a modern classic" to "unholy mess"
Critics, put down the pitchforks pens! The first reviews for Maggie Gyllenhaal's monster movie The Bride are in – and well, they're seriously mixed. The new horror-romance is being called everything from "a modern classic" to an "unholy mess", earning it ...