Two new movies ransack 19th century literary classics in search of 21st century resonance.

Magie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! has struggled in its second weekend at the box office and is threatening to become 2026's biggest flop yet ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s "The Bride!" is deeply flawed — and more exciting than any recent take on Mary Shelley's work.

The lack of a rich, fully articulate origin text for the Bride, not to mention how imperfect and compromised her movie ...

This is a rare and atypically fulsome outing for The Bride herself, a macabre mate for the lonely monster, who was literally ...

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 ...

Like the title character of her new movie “The Bride!,” Maggie Gyllenhaal got possessed by Mary Shelley. In crafting her genre-smashing take on “The Bride of Frankenstein,” the director went down a ...

About the time Christian Bale’s Frankenstein and Jessie Buckley’s Bride crash an A-list party in 1930s New York and jump-start a full-on musical number set to “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” it is clear that ...

Credits: Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, starring Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Julianne Hough, Penelope Cruz, Annette Bening and John Magaro. Rating/runtime: R for ...

In some alternate universe, there’s probably a simpler, more straightforward version of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein spin-off movie The Bride! that’s currently getting called a must-see ...

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 joined The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast to discuss her latest directorial effort, “The Bride” and revealed how the studio test screening process took her to task over the ...