Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The Bride! also earned a “fresh” critic score from Caryn James of the BBC, who writes in her ...
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 ...
Jessie Buckley's anguished scream of a performance can't sustain an ambitious feminist opera that feels unintentionally, conspicuously tailor-made to align with Warner Bros.' neighboring DC properties ...
Here comes "The Bride!", Maggie Gyllenhaal's extremely messy, extremely inventive film that dares you to try to neatly fit it into one genre. It's a sort-of-musical, meta-sequel-reboot, comedy, love ...
The Bride lying on the table in the lab - Warner Bros. Let's be clear on one thing: "The Bride!" is a wild ride. Courtesy of director Maggie Gyllenhaal, it offers up a frenzied take on the "Bride of ...
If you love classic movies, THE BRIDE! is pure delight, fun with a brain that is a treat deluxe for those who love both classic movies and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s original book “Frankenstein.” ...
Last November, Guillermo del Toro’s faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic classic premiered on Netflix to lukewarm critical reception. Nevertheless, 2025’s Frankenstein is nominated for nine ...
A goth-punk feminist revival of Mary Shelley refracted through noir fatalism, vaudevillian spectacle, and a lovers-on-the-run romance that echoes the outlaw mythology of Bonnie and Clyde sounds like ...