‘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 outlaws in love.

‘The Bride!' review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's genre mashup feels stitched together

Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale star in a reimagining of "Bride of Frankenstein" that's part horror, musical, noir and gangster film.
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The Bride! Review

Film Review, a movie written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Annette Bening

Decadent and disorderly, 'The Bride!' is a spectacular beast rampaging out of control

As the monster and her Frankenstein, Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale serve up a messy, electrified take on 'Bonnie and Clyde' in a extravaganza stitched from classic movie references.

‘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, conspicuously tailor-made to align with Warner Bros.' neighboring DC
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Review: ‘The Bride’ offers a thrill ride of feminine rage

Darkly fantastical and a furious look at women's place in the world, Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride is a reimagining like no other. The post REVIEW: ‘The Bride’ Offers A Thrill Ride Of Feminine Rage appeared first on But Why Tho?
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‘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!