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Maggie Gyllenhaal's Dead On Arrival Flop 'The Bride!' Is Now Streaming On HBO Max — And It's Way More Alive Than You've Heard

It is the fate of the Universal Monster to be misunderstood. Technically speaking, the Bride of Frankenstein figure from Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, arriving on HBO Max after a vanishingly brief ...
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'The Bride!' Review: Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley’s Weird, Wild Romance Is the Boldest 'Frankenstein' Adaptation Yet

At just 18, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote her first and most famous novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. 208 years later, Shelley's story is still captivating us, inspiring hundreds of ...
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‘The Bride!’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Graverobs Mary Shelley for a Wokified, ‘Joker’-fied Folie-à-Deux Zonked on Its Own Rage

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Decadent and disorderly, ‘The Bride!’ is a spectacular beast rampaging out of control

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “The Bride!” is a maniacal assemblage of ’30s musicals, ’40s noirs, 19th century literature and 21st century ...