Or, the Modern Prometheus” is often hailed as the first science-fiction novel, and since its publication over 200 years ago, it has inspired countless adaptations. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s invigoratingly loopy new horror comedy The Bride! overcomes preachiness with sheer stylishness. Although ...

Experts break down the history of Frankenstein’s Bride, from Mary Shelley to Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!,” and why the ...

The most impressive thing about The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal's feminist revamp of The Bride of Frankenstein, is how thoroughly ill-conceived it is. This movie fails at everything. There is not a ...

Even before Ida (Jessie Buckley) becomes a black-bile-spewing revenant, you wouldn’t call her a proper lady. At a shady gin joint in Chicago, 1936, she’s vacant-eyed, slurring, and lurching in her ...

In theory, 'The Bride' should be one of the most exciting films of 2026. However, its brand of radical feminism feels performative.

Actress-turned-director Maggie Gyllenhaal has reimagined Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel “Frankenstein” as a new film with the Bride as the central character. So it’s fitting that "The Bride!" hits theaters ...

The premise of The Bride! is hidden from its advertising. Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal opens on Mary Shelley (an acidic Jessie Buckley) stuck in a black-and-white purgatory of sorts, only her ...