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 ...

“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 ...

This is a rare and atypically fulsome outing for The Bride herself, a macabre mate for the lonely monster, who was literally never completed in Mary Shelly’s novel, and was a mere cameo in James Whale ...

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 ...

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In some alternate universe, there’s probably a simpler, more straightforward version of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein spin-off movie The Bride! that’s ...

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 ...

The new Maggie Gyllenhaal film, The Bride!, is set to release in theaters this week. This marks the actress-turned-filmmaker's second directorial effort after The Lost Daughter, which was released in ...