Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bride and Frankenstein

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Movie Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’ is a Frankenstein riff with a pulse
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride!' is a lot of fun but is an ultimately empty exercise
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley reimagine Frankenstein’s bride
The Bride! Review: Jessie Buckley & Christian Bale Frankenstein Movie Is Enchanting
The Bride! is a swooning, soot-streaked fever dream of a movie, the kind that feels less like a retelling and more like a resurrection.

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‘The Bride!’ Rotten Tomatoes Reviews: Critics Split On Monster Movie Redux
‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Are Magnetic Monsters in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Lumbering Punk Horror Trip
Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride!' is out this Friday: Everything to know about the gothic romance set in 1930s Chicago
The upcoming film stars Jessie Buckley as a woman who is murdered and then brought back to life as the companion of Frankenstein’s monster.

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‘The Bride!’ review: Jessie Buckley’s latest is one of the worst movies I’ve seen in this job
‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Get Their Freak on in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Bludgeoning Feminist Frankenstein Spin

THE BRIDE Is What Going to the Movies Is All About (Review)

Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride is a beautiful Frankenstein story that captures what going to the movies is all about; here's our full review. The post THE BRIDE Is What Going to the Movies Is All

The Bride! review: Everybody do the monster mash!

Jessie Buckley is a graveyard smash in this balls-to-the-wall retelling of Mary Shelley’s feminist fever dream
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The Bride! film review – feminist Frankenstein is a radical riot

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’s Bride of Frankenstein in 1935.

Is The Bride! worth watching? Critics mixed on 'lumbering' Jessie Buckley monster movie

Maggie Gyllenhaal's punk-inspired The Bride! splits critics, with Jessie Buckley widely praised but reviewers divided on its tone and ambition.