Ostensibly, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film, The Bride! offers a reimagining of the 1936 film The Bride of Frankenstein, in which the bride appears only briefly and does not say a single word. This is ...

Frankenstein and his Bride become an undead Bonnie and Clyde in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s riot grrl take on the story. Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) is dead, but she has ...

It’s perhaps not all that surprising that The Bride!, a feminist reimagining of a classic monster movie, would open behind Hoppers, the latest Pixar animated feature. But how far behind that The Bride ...

Director Maggie Gyllenhaal tells IndieWire about developing a visual language that brings a monstrous magic to IMAX. When Maggie Gyllenhaal started prep on “The Lost Daughter,” one of the first things ...

After years of talk about Hollywood reimagining The Bride of Frankenstein for the modern age, Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! is among new 2026 movies out this week, and it’s time to talk about the ...

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 ...

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Instead, her creation is an amalgam of disparate concepts, brought together in defiance of storytelling logic (and the opinions of test-screen audiences). Jessie Buckley stars as Ida, a gangster’s ...

Bursting at your neck staples to see Maggie Gyllenhaal’s reimagining of The Bride of Frankenstein starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as the undead lovers? The new movie The Bride! is already ...

'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 ...

ZERO STARS. Running time: 127 minutes. Rated R (strong/bloody violent content, sexual content/nudity and language). In theaters March 6. Leave her at the altar! She is “The Bride!,” one of the ...

There are more movies based on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” than nearly any other story ever published. But something’s missing from a lot of them. Most “Frankenstein” movies have a mad scientist, ...