Not all the rage.

Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale spark a feral, fascinating chemistry, though even their undead romance struggles to animate Maggie Gyllenhaal’s unruly feminist monster mash ...

And now let us praise difficult women, for this film is full of them. The Bride! is about the power of no, a woman saying no.

When the opening frames of The Bride! displays introductory text establishing that Mary Shelley wrote her classic Gothic tragedy, Frankenstein, on a dare, it feels like needless table-setting.

On March 15, Jessie Buckley almost surely will be presented with the Academy Award for Best Actress for her terrific performance in last year’s “Hamnet.” She’s already getting a jump on the race for ...

Jessie Buckley's anguished scream of a performance can't sustain an ambitious feminist opera that feels unintentionally, ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal directs Jessie Buckley in the new adaptation.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! swings for a radical, genre-bending reinvention of Bride of Frankenstein. But the result is a messy, overstuffed film that makes an awkward attempt at feminist relevance ...

In Shelley’s novel, Dr. Frankenstein, suffering some tardy pangs of conscience, and eager to get rid of the problem he created, agrees to make his monster a mate if it means they disappear together.

Christian Bale stars as Frankenstein's monster in 'The Bride' (2026). Film Critic Jessie Buckley stars as the titular ...

Buckley and Gyllenhaal were truly the women of the hour, co-hosting the film festivities for their $80 million-budget gothic romance held at Lincoln Center ...

Big, ambitious movies sometimes connect with audiences in a major way. Other times, they swing for the fences and miss. Unfortunately for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s 2026 movie schedule release, The Bride!, ...