Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale star in this occasionally clever yet punishing hot mess from writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Jessie Buckley's anguished scream of a performance can't sustain an ambitious feminist opera that feels unintentionally, ...
Jessie Buckley, an Oscar favorite for "Hamnet," goes for broke in "The Bride!" She's amazing, but can't save Maggie Gyllenhaal's latest film.
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many ...
A ferocious Jessie Buckley and a heartbreaking Christian Bale star in a bold film of "huge scope and ambition" that is "loaded with surprises".
Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal also appear in this punk-rock exhumation of a character ...
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.
The Bride!, starring Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley, is a wild, unique adaptation that breathes new life into this story.
A review of Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride' , an offbeat love story between Jessie Buckley's bride and Christian Bale's ...