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fromSlate Magazine
5 hours ago

She Went From Reality Star to Best Actress Front-Runner. She Deserves It All.

The Bride! fails as a film by attempting too many conflicting genres, tones, and stylistic approaches simultaneously, undermining its ambitions as both camp entertainment and serious feminist commentary.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 days ago

'The Bride!' Is a Failed Experiment

Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! attempts an ambitious reimagining of Bride of Frankenstein but loses its social commentary beneath excessive stylistic choices and tonal inconsistency.
fromVulture
3 days ago

I Have No Idea What The Bride! Is Trying to Say, But It Sure Is Loud About It

It's a film that uses James Whale's 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein as the jumping-off point for a horror-gangster-musical-romance mashup starring Jessie Buckley as the titular reanimated character and Christian Bale as Frank, her stitched-together swain. Whatever its other qualities, The Bride! is unquestionably a huge swing of a movie, one that kicks off with Mary Shelley herself speaking to the camera from a black-and-white purgatory.
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