The Bride! review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's riff on the Bride of Frankenstein is 'exhilarating'

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

‘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, ...

Never ‘The Bride!’ Critics are split over Jessie Buckley’s pre-Oscar monster movie with Christian Bale

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

The Bride! review: Send Jessie Buckley's Frankenstein monstrosity back to the grave

The Bride! review. Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale's reimagining of the Frankenstein myth is a rotting corpse of ...

The Oscars’ Best Actress Frontrunner Drops Monstrous Misfire

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

Oscar-favourite Jessie Buckley shows why she’s one of the best in a weird and wild monster movie

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 ...