Jessie Buckley, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Bride
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The Bride! Review: A refreshing yet wacky spin on a timeless romance
Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! creates a monster of a film by piecing together romance, feminism, and a whole lot of wacky as Christian Bale's Frankenstein finds love
Meanwhile, Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) has become so agonizingly lonely in his century of undead existence that he seeks out the eccentric Dr. Euphronius (a wonderfully wry Annette Bening).
Jessie Buckley is a graveyard smash in this balls-to-the-wall retelling of Mary Shelley’s feminist fever dream