Never before has an exclamation point promised so much. And in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!—a clunking, clumsy rage against the machine—it sure as hell delivers. For all the downfalls of this ...
Jessie Buckley plays both undead Mary Shelley and the gun moll her spirit possesses in a riot grrl take on the 1935 Bride of Frankenstein.
“A lumbering assortment of various parts poorly stitched together and bursting at the seams” is an apt description of both Frankenstein’s monster and writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s very loose ...
Visually stunning but narratively sloppy, The Bride! is a messy monster mash that’s far from a graveyard smash.