A ferocious Jessie Buckley and a heartbreaking Christian Bale star in a bold film of "huge scope and ambition" that is "loaded with surprises".
Considering there have been an estimated 187 cinematic takes on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal's movie is a scrappy feminist take-off on the "Frankenstein" myth that could have used more storytelling juice.
Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal also appear in this punk-rock exhumation of a character only briefly introduced in Mary Shelley’s novel. By David Rooney Chief Film ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The Bride” is audacious and ambitious with respect to premise, but as executed by director-writer Maggie Gyllenhaal, this gothic ...
Discover why critics are divided over Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, featuring Christian Bale’s six-hour makeup transformation and Jessie Buckley.
Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride" is an ambitious but disjointed take on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" set in the 1930s. The performances by Bale and Buckley are highlighted as stellar and a primary ...
With Bride of Frankenstein In 1935, director James Whale brought to life more than just a would-be wife for his first monstrous creation. He helped electrify a Hollywood playbook that Marvel, DC and ...