Mashing together a century of cinema’s monsters and horror literature even before that, nobody’s gonna say about The Bride! that it doesn’t come to play, and play hard—nowhere more emphatic than in ...

"The Oscars’ Best Actress frontrunner drops monstrous misfire," reads the headline of his mixed take, which notes that ...

A ferocious Jessie Buckley and a heartbreaking Christian Bale star in a bold film of "huge scope and ambition" that is "loaded with surprises".

Is it a horror movie? Not quite. It’s a scrappy punk feminist tragicomedy of l’amour fou, a renegade take-off on the "Frankenstein" mythology. And while the movie doesn’t entirely work — it lumbers ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s glorious, (re)invigorating ‘Zombie and Clyde’ co-stars Christian Bale as one of the best Frankenstein Monsters.

It isn’t much of a hot take to suggest this, but the only classic Universal monster movie better than James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein is his 1935 sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein. In fact, the only ...

Meanwhile, Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) has become so agonizingly lonely in his century of undead existence that he seeks out the eccentric Dr. Euphronius (a wonderfully wry Annette Bening) ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal has transformed Frankenstein’s Bride into a bizarre modern spectacle starring the Jessie Buckley that is taking on Wuthering Heights. With a weird monster movie and the return of ...

Ambition can be a curse as much as a blessing. And it dooms The Bride!, a revisionist take on James Whale’s 1935 Universal ...