5 Reasons ‘The Bride!’ Was Dead on Arrival at the Box Office

It’s alive, but it’s not exactly showing signs of life. “The Bride!,” director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punk rock, feminist ...

‘The Bride!’ review: Jessie Buckley’s latest is one of the worst movies I’ve seen in this job

movie review THE BRIDE Zero Stars ZERO STARS. Running time: 127 minutes. Rated R (strong/bloody violent content, sexual ...

‘The Bride!’ Review: Frankie, My Dear

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s time-shifting, genre-hopping riff on Mary Shelley’s creation stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as ...
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Movie Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’ is a Frankenstein riff with a pulse

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 ...

‘The Bride!’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Graverobs Mary Shelley for a Wokified, ‘Joker’-fied Folie-à-Deux Zonked on Its Own Rage

Jessie Buckley commands Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride,' but the feminist horror movie is both conspicuously DC-coded and ...

‘The Bride!' review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's genre mashup feels stitched together

Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale star in a reimagining of "Bride of Frankenstein" that's part horror, musical, noir and ...

'The Bride!' review: Jessie Buckley breathes life into a monstrous mess

Christian Bale co-stars in Maggie Gyllenhaal's gorgeous Frankenstein's monster of a movie that nearly flies apart at the seams.

‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Are Magnetic Monsters in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Lumbering Punk Horror Trip

Maggie Gyllenhaal's movie is a scrappy feminist take-off on the "Frankenstein" myth that could have used more storytelling juice.

'The Bride!' review: This is one wedding you'll want to skip

Part 'Bonnie and Clyde', part 'Joker', all nonsense, 'The Bride!' is a misfire in practically every direction and we still weren’t able to dodge the bullets.