Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride is a captivating movie. Right from its very first moments, this film knows how to hook its viewers, immerse them in its world, and so thoroughly entertain them that ...

Because you can never have too many Frankenstein movies, director Maggie Gyllenhaal is throwing her hat into the ring with The Bride!, a new gothic romance loosely based on the 1935 film Bride of ...

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 ...

If you love classic movies, THE BRIDE! is pure delight, fun with a brain that is a treat deluxe for those who love both classic movies and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s original book “Frankenstein.” ...

Ive been SO excited for THE BRIDE! Since Cinemacon of last year. Almost a year full year ago I saw a sneak peek of this cacophonous take on Frankenstein and his Bride as well as heard Maggie ...

With her audacious sophomore feature “The Bride!” writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal offers a topical-ish take on “Bride of Frankenstein”: what if “the Joker” was “brat”? (To borrow Charli XCX’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The Bride! also earned a “fresh” critic score from Caryn James of the BBC, who writes in her ...

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 ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s exquisite reimagining of the Frankenstein legend is an exceptional monster movie and one of the year’s best films. Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" reimagines Frankenstein with punk, gore ...