Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bride and Movie Review

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‘The Bride!' review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's genre mashup feels stitched together
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 d...

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Movie Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride!' is a Frankenstein riff with a pulse
The Bride! Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's Beautiful, Messy Monster Movie Is An Unhinged Delight
‘The Bride!’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Reinvents The ‘Frankenstein’ Story And Gives Sensational Jessie Buckley And Christian Bale A Monster Mashup Like No Other
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 w...

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The director and ‘The Bride!’ Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley dare you to meet your monster
The Bride! Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Stitched Together The Most Fun, Feral And Fantastic Frankenstein Movie Yet
‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Are Magnetic Monsters in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Lumbering Punk Horror Trip
He’s someone born to be played by Christian Bale . Bale makes him winningly dim but just aware enough to have a conversation, with a sluggish, post-lobotomy voice that sounds like Bale doing his imper...

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Maggie Gyllenhaal unleashes ‘The Bride!’ in New York
Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride!' is out this Friday: Everything to know about the gothic romance set in 1930s Chicago

‘The Bride!’ Is a Monster Mash-Up of Sex, Violence, Resistance, and Ideas. Many, Many Ideas

Maggie Gyllenhaal's radical take on the Bride of Frankenstein story takes a middle finger to the patriarchy. Plus there are musical numbers!

‘The Bride!’ Review: Frankie, My Dear

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s time-shifting, genre-hopping riff on Mary Shelley’s creation stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as outlaws in love.
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The Bride!

Among all the directorial debuts made by actors in this century, Maggie Gyllenhaal ’s Elena Ferrante adaptation “ The Lost Daughter ” (2021) has a special place. Nominated for Oscars in Best Actress,