Maggie Gyllenhaal’s take on The Bride of Frankenstein officially comes alive among a slew of new 2026 movie releases coming to theaters this weekend. If you’ve been wondering whether The Bride! is a ...

Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal also appear in this punk-rock exhumation of a character only briefly introduced in Mary Shelley’s novel. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

The Bride! is in theaters on March 6. Frankenstein's lightning-streaked bride has been an enduring image on screen ever since James Whale, the director of the original 1931 Frankenstein film, ...

At just 18, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote her first and most famous novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. 208 years later, Shelley's story is still captivating us, inspiring hundreds of ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" is a visually and narratively ambitious film that struggles to contain its many ideas. The movie features bold performances from Jessie Buckley as the bride and ...

Considering there have been an estimated 187 cinematic takes on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, and about 20 of them zoning in on the Bride of Frankenstein in one ...

“The Bride!” opens somewhere unknowable — a vignetted dark space in which the specter of Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) feels like she’s lit by her own unquenchable desire for mischief, and a version ...

Collider's Perri Nemiroff speaks with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley on The Bride!'s unique tonal "tightrope" and tapping into The Bride. Christian Bale breaks down the character creation for ...

The premise of The Bride! is hidden from its advertising. Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal opens on Mary Shelley (an acidic Jessie Buckley) stuck in a black-and-white purgatory of sorts, only her ...

Actress-turned-director Maggie Gyllenhaal has reimagined Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel “Frankenstein” as a new film with the Bride as the central character. So it’s fitting that "The Bride!" hits theaters ...