‘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 ...

‘Hoppers’ To Pop $88M WW Debut, Best For Pixar Original Since ‘Coco’; ‘The Bride!’ Eyes $40M WW – Box Office Preview

Box office preview for the first weekend of March 2026 shows 'Hoppers' leading with $88M worldwide and 'The Bride!' with ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal Loved Those ‘The Bride!’ Test Screenings: “The Fantasy of It Being Some Horrible Thing Is Inaccurate”

The Oscar-nominated filmmaker sets the record straight on making her movie as a “dare,” her conversations with Warner Bros.

‘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 stitched-up middle finger to the patriarchy. Also ...

Christian Bale found his inner monster through primal screaming on 'The Bride!' set

Christian Bale's intense character preparation for "The Bride" includes unconventional group primal screaming sessions with ...
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The Bride!

Among all the directorial debuts made by actors in this century, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Elena Ferrante adaptation “The Lost Daughter” (2021) has a special place. Nominated for Oscars in Best Actress, ...

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

Jessie Buckley's anguished scream of a performance can't sustain an ambitious feminist opera that feels unintentionally, ...

Why the Monsters of ‘The Bride!’ Don’t Look That Monstrous

Maggie Gyllenhaal explained her creature-creation philosophy when it came to designing looks for Christian Bale and Jessie ...

The Many Brides of Frankenstein

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” imagines an empowered mate for the monster. We look back at other memorable cinematic ...