Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts. But I’ll say this for it: It’s alive. Just months after Guillermo ...
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Director Maggie Gyllenhaal reinvents a classic monster story in ‘The Bride!’ but sewing together different genres like body parts doesn’t always work. ‘The Bride!’ is a lot. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second ...
The Bride! starts with Buckley conveying Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, in an inspired sequence that is best left to be discovered than analyzed in a review like this. We meet Buckley’s ...
Actress-director Maggie Gyllenhaal may be the first person to go from playing a woman blown up in an IMAX movie (The Dark Knight, 2008) to being the woman actually directing an IMAX movie (The Bride!, ...
It isn’t much of a hot take to suggest this, but the only classic Universal monster movie better than James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein is his 1935 sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein. In fact, the only ...
Frankenstein and his Bride become an undead Bonnie and Clyde in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s riot grrl take on the story. Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) is dead, but she has ...
Frankenstein has been on top of the world for the past few months. Netflix released Guillermo Del Toro’s “Frankenstein” on its streaming service Nov. 7. The film was the No. 1 Netflix movie in 72 ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts. But I’ll say this for it: It’s alive. Just months after Guillermo ...