Jessie Buckley plays both undead Mary Shelley and the gun moll her spirit possesses in a riot grrl take on the 1935 Bride of Frankenstein.
The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punky revival isn’t as feminist as it thinks it is - 3/5 The ...
Just months after Guillermo del Toro presented his lavish “Frankenstein,” Gyllenhaal, in her follow-up to her excellent 2021 ...
The Bride!, a modern retelling of The Bride of Frankenstein, takes massive swings in terms of performances, plotting and subtext, but not all of its gambles pay off.
In the opening beats of The Bride!, the second feature written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the ghost of Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) mutters to herself from some dark corner of the ...
Jessie Buckley is currently blazing a Best Actress streak all the way to the Oscars for her transcendent turn in Hamnet.
'Where we filmed it was a million miles away from what you see on screen' ...
In Shelley’s novel, Dr. Frankenstein, suffering some tardy pangs of conscience, and eager to get rid of the problem he created, agrees to make his monster a mate if it means they disappear together.
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many ...
Jessie Buckley is currently blazing a Best Actress streak all the way to the Oscars for her transcendent turn in Hamnet.
Despite its lofty goals, a disjointed story structure and grating sensibility make the film more irritating than insightful.
That annoyingly emphatic exclamation mark in the title isn’t just there for looks; it’s emblematic of the movie’s overkill ...