Two new movies ransack 19th century literary classics in search of 21st century resonance.

Magie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! has struggled in its second weekend at the box office and is threatening to become 2026's biggest flop yet ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s "The Bride!" is deeply flawed — and more exciting than any recent take on Mary Shelley's work.

The lack of a rich, fully articulate origin text for the Bride, not to mention how imperfect and compromised her movie ...

This is a rare and atypically fulsome outing for The Bride herself, a macabre mate for the lonely monster, who was literally never completed in Mary Shelly’s novel, and was a mere cameo in James Whale ...

The Bride! is prompting questions from audiences curious about whether the film includes any additional scenes after the credits. As viewers head into theaters for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Gothic romance, ...

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 ...

Ahead of its release, the new creature feature The Bride! had already been generating some controversy. With this in mind, it's perhaps no surprise that the film has garnered a divisive response from ...

'Hoppers' could mark the biggest opening in a decade for an original Pixar title. Conversely, Gyllenhaal's foray into Frankenstein territory isn't going over so great with critics. By Pamela ...

Like the title character of her new movie “The Bride!,” Maggie Gyllenhaal got possessed by Mary Shelley. In crafting her genre-smashing take on “The Bride of Frankenstein,” the director went down a ...