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'The Bride' is a must-see movie - a bold, bloody epic from a visionary filmmaker

“Here comes the motherf–ing Bride!” author Mary Shelley roars directly down the barrel in the opening minutes of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s batty, brainy, and beautiful dissection of The Bride of ...
Forbes

‘The Bride!’ Rotten Tomatoes Reviews: Critics Split On Monster Movie Redux

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The Bride! also earned a “fresh” critic score from Caryn James of the BBC, who writes in her ...
Forbes

Here’s How Bad ‘The Bride!’ Bombed At The Box Office In Its Opening Weekend

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s monster mash The Bride! opened in theaters last Friday, but it’s already become a living nightmare for the acclaimed writer-director. Forbes‘The Bride!’: Stars Who Played Bride Of ...
Metro Times

‘The Bride!’ is a monster of a movie

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 ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’: First Reactions From the Premiere

The Gothic romance drama starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale hits theaters on March 6. By Abid Rahman International Editor, Digital Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s The Bride! held its world premiere in ...
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The Bride! is a no-show at the box office altar with under 1/6 its budget

Despite a cast full of heavy hitters led by Oscar frontrunner Jessie Buckley, The Bride!suffered a major blow at the box office in its debut weekend. The movie, which marks Maggie Gyllenhaal's ...
Indiana Daily Student

COLUMN: ‘The Bride!’ wants to go beyond a large studio film. It almost does

Frankenstein has been on top of the world for the past few months. Netflix released Guillermo Del Toro’s “Frankenstein” on its streaming service Nov. 7. The film was the No. 1 Netflix movie in 72 ...
BBC

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". If you were a powerless woman in 1936 Chicago killed by ...
Los Angeles Times

Here comes the bride in the ‘monstrous’ trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein movie

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Woman … friend … wife. Jessie Buckley is the platinum blond bride of ...
IndieWire

‘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 properties ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Bride! Is a mismatched metatextual movie marriage

"Here comes the motherf***ing bride!" insists a spectral Mary Shelley, the quasi-narrator of Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!, who lives solely in the conscience of our titular character. Frankenstein's ...