The Bride (Character)

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bride and Frank

‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Get Their Freak on in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Bludgeoning Feminist Frankenstein Spin

In Maggie Gyllenhaal ’s aggressively punky reconsideration of the reanimated monster spouse, she becomes a laborious study guide for a Feminism 101 class, emphatically indicating points on sexual viol...

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In ‘Bride of Frankenstein,’ the Monster’s Wife Never Speaks. Now, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’ Gives the Iconic Character a Voice

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‘The Bride!' review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's genre mashup feels stitched together

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The Director and ‘The Bride!’ Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley Dare You to Meet Your Monster

Maggie Gyllenhaal had earned a little currency as a filmmaker and wanted to make something big.

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The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punky revival isn’t as feminist as it thinks it is

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Never ‘The Bride!’ Critics are split over Jessie Buckley’s pre-Oscar monster movie with Christian Bale

Thanks to Mary Shelley, 'The Bride!' finally speaks her truth

Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" puts a spin on a horror classic. And she found monster inspiration in a literary giant and a 1930s actress.

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Penelope Cruz says it was "a pleasure" to "express a lot of rage" in new horror-romance The Bride: "Through a character like that, you can release so many things"

Exclusive: New monster movie The Bride allowed Penelope Cruz to "express" a lot of things she's "not been able to say as a woman"

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‘The Bride!’ Review: Frankie, My Dear

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s time-shifting, genre-hopping riff on Mary Shelley’s creation stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as outlaws in love.

‘The Bride!’ Is a Mad Monster Party

Meanwhile, Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) has become so agonizingly lonely in his century of undead existence that he seeks out the eccentric Dr. Euphronius (a wonderfully wry Annette Bening).