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

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 ...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein focused on Victor Frankenstein, as well as the creature he created, but what about the creature’s long-awaited companion that never was? In The Bride!, director Maggie ...

Frankenstein’s female creature, also known as “the Bride”, was the first female monster to appear on screen, in the 1935 Frankenstein sequel: The Bride of Frankenstein. An unruly and rebellious figure ...

No less imaginative is the importation of the story from Europe to midcentury America. This allows the film to include among its sights rollicking nightclubs, decadent parties, and grand movie palaces ...

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 ...

In “The Bride!” Maggie Gyllenhaal fails to breathe new life into a classic source material. Landing in theaters March 6, actress and filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sophomore directorial project trips ...

Official image from ‘The Bride!’ courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. The Bride of Frankenstein is a classic, feminine twist on the original story of Frankenstein, which has been consistently alluded to ...