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The Bride! clip runs away with Frankenstein’s monster

Warner Bros has released one final clip from The Bride! displaying Frank (Christian Bale; American Psycho) and his reanimated ...

‘The Bride!’ Is a Monster Mash-Up of Sex, Violence, Resistance, and Ideas. Many, Many Ideas

Maggie Gyllenhaal's radical take on the Bride of Frankenstein story takes a middle finger to the patriarchy. Plus there are ...

‘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 ...

The Bride! is a bold, bloody, feminist Frankenstein freakout

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley mean to make you uncomfortable in their confrontational monster movie The Bride!
Roger Ebert

The Bride!

Among all the directorial debuts made by actors in this century, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Elena Ferrante adaptation “The Lost ...

The Bride! Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's Beautiful, Messy Monster Movie Is An Unhinged Delight

Jessie Buckley goes big in The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal's messy, audacious punk rock monster mash that overcomes its flaws ...

‘The Bride!’ Review

The Bride! is an “interesting” movie. It is decidedly not a “good” movie.
Porterville Recorder

Movie review: 'The Bride!' an assemblage of parts that lacks cohesion

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 ineffa ...

'The Bride!' Review: Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley’s Weird, Wild Romance Is the Boldest 'Frankenstein' Adaptation Yet

The Bride!, starring Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley, is a wild, unique adaptation that breathes new life into this story.