Maggie Gyllenhaal's latest film, 'The Bride!', explores agency, identity and feminism in the messy 1930s world of monsters and men.
Jessie Buckley, an Oscar favorite for "Hamnet," goes for broke in "The Bride!" She's amazing, but one one could save Maggie ...
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Maggie Gyllenhaal had earned a little currency as a filmmaker and wanted to make something big. Something epic. Something honest. Something that wouldn't just hit a vein, as she'd done with her first ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts. But I’ll say this for it: It’s alive. Just months after Guillermo ...
Jessie Buckley, on the cusp of near-certain Oscar glory for Hamnet, is on altogether more berserk form in The Bride!. Wildly arresting as she is, she can’t stop it from being a confused mess. This is ...
Goddamn, I would love to have loved The Bride!, the latest from Maggie Gyllenhaal, whose directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, was my favorite of 2021. It’s a film that uses James Whale’s 1935 classic ...