We head back to the 1990s for the movie in third place, this time with Beauty and the Beast. There are some questions and ...
Frankenstein and his Bride become an undead Bonnie and Clyde in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s riot grrl take on the story. Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) is dead, but she has ...
Titular punctuation is the bane of a movie critic’s existence. Is it 28 Days Later or 28 Days Later … ? Do we really have to put quotation marks around “Wuthering Heights,” no matter how often Emerald ...
Instead, her creation is an amalgam of disparate concepts, brought together in defiance of storytelling logic (and the opinions of test-screen audiences). Jessie Buckley stars as Ida, a gangster’s ...
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 ...
He’s a reanimated corpse, cursed to wander the land in a state of existential misery for centuries! She’s a former moll for a two-bit gangster, brought back from the dead to become his soulmate! You ...
If you thought Jessie Buckley’s performance in “Hamnet” was heightened and over-the-top, her work in “The Bride!” will redefine those terms for you. Playing the potential mate for Victor ...
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. By David Rooney Chief Film ...
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 ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" is a visually and narratively ambitious film that struggles to contain its many ideas. The movie features bold performances from Jessie Buckley as the bride and ...
Just as much as I am a fan of Tim Burton's films, I am equally enthusiastic about his longtime partner in crime. No I don't mean Johnny Depp, but Danny Elfman, the composer for almost all of Burton's ...