"The Oscars’ Best Actress frontrunner drops monstrous misfire," reads the headline of his mixed take, which notes that ...
Directed by James Whale, the 1935 movie and its prequel, a 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic novel, laid the ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s imaginative adaptation of the Frankenstein story, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, leaves its ...
Barbie and The Bride are equally misunderstood pop culture figures. It shouldn't surprise anyone that their films serve as ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal's radical take on the Bride of Frankenstein story takes a middle finger to the patriarchy. Plus there are ...
Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal also appear in this punk-rock exhumation of a character only briefly introduced in Mary Shelley’s novel.
Never mind spare body parts. In Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, our eponymous newlywed is composed of three entirely separate and competing personalities. There is Ida, a seeming gangster’s mol ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal's movie is a scrappy feminist take-off on the "Frankenstein" myth that could have used more storytelling ...
The film does not offer a clean resolution. Frank and the Bride both confess their love for one another and vow to be together “till the end of time,” but the scene is more poignant than victorious.
Maggie Gyllenhaal's film "The Bride" reinvents the classic character, giving her a powerful voice in a punk rock retelling ...
Part 'Bonnie and Clyde', part 'Joker', all nonsense, 'The Bride!' is a misfire in practically every direction and we still weren’t able to dodge the bullets.
Big swings usually lead to big misses.