Two new movies ransack 19th century literary classics in search of 21st century resonance.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s "The Bride!" is deeply flawed — and more exciting than any recent take on Mary Shelley's work.

The lack of a rich, fully articulate origin text for the Bride, not to mention how imperfect and compromised her movie ...

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 ...

“She finds herself in such an insane situation,” Gyllenhaal said in a press conference promoting the film. “Having been brought back from the dead without her consent to be the wife of someone that ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s bold interpretation of The Bride reimagines the classic monster story as an emotional gothic love story. Unlike past adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the central focus ...

If you’re heading to the theater to catch The Bride!, you might be wondering whether it’s worth sticking around once the credits roll. The short answer: yes, but only partway. The film includes a ...

The Bride! is prompting questions from audiences curious about whether the film includes any additional scenes after the credits. As viewers head into theaters for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Gothic romance, ...

I have been waiting for The Bride! long enough that I started to wonder if I was building it into something it could never be. Two years of cast announcements (which I started covering in 2024), a ...

The Bride! premiered in the United States on March 6, 2026. The film is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, which means it could follow the timeline of other Warner Bros. projects. The usual wait ...