Maggie Gyllenhaal's decidedly polarizing take on a monster icon, "The Bride!" did not perform well at the box office during its opening weekend. As our own Ryan Scott has identified, there are ...

In an era of cinema often defined by safe reboots and sterile franchises, Maggie Gyllenhaal has delivered a jagged, neon-soaked lightning bolt to the heart of the zeitgeist. The Bride! isn’t just a ...

Frankenstein has been on top of the world for the past few months. Netflix released Guillermo Del Toro’s “Frankenstein” on its streaming service Nov. 7. The film was the No. 1 Netflix movie in 72 ...

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 ...

It isn’t much of a hot take to suggest this, but the only classic Universal monster movie better than James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein is his 1935 sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein. In fact, the only ...

And beyond her protagonist, Gyllenhaal’s daring script contains a handful of radical conceits, from making a character of Mary Shelley herself, to setting her action in Prohibition-era America, to ...