“It was almost like meeting him again,” Gyllenhaal said about Bale at the film’s New York premiere on Tuesday night. “What was required of him in this movie, I needed his whole heart, his whole mind.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride is a captivating movie. Right from its very first moments, this film knows how to hook its viewers, immerse them in its world, and so thoroughly entertain them that ...