Jessie Buckley plays both undead Mary Shelley and the gun moll her spirit possesses in a riot grrl take on the 1935 Bride of Frankenstein.

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 and Christian Bale star in this occasionally clever yet punishing hot mess from writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal.

That annoyingly emphatic exclamation mark in the title isn’t just there for looks; it’s emblematic of the movie’s overkill ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's radical take on the Bride of Frankenstein story takes a stitched-up middle finger to the patriarchy. Also ...

Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley star in this wild, messy rewrite of Bride of Frankenstein, by way of Bonnie and Clyde, punk rock, and Lady Gaga.

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.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s glorious, (re)invigorating ‘Zombie and Clyde’ co-stars Christian Bale as one of the best Frankenstein Monsters.

When the opening frames of The Bride! displays introductory text establishing that Mary Shelley wrote her classic Gothic tragedy, Frankenstein, on a dare, it feels like needless table-setting.

Jessie Buckley is currently blazing a Best Actress streak all the way to the Oscars for her transcendent turn in Hamnet.

And so, Frank (as he comes to be known) asks a sympathetic medical scientist, Dr Euphronius (Annette Bening), to dig up a ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s imaginative adaptation of the Frankenstein story, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, leaves its premise and its principles undeveloped.