{"id":2312723,"date":"2026-03-04T20:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2312723"},"modified":"2026-03-04T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:34:12","slug":"the-bride-review-jessie-buckley-and-christian-bale-are-magnetic-monsters-in-maggie-gyllenhaals-lumbering-punk-horror-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-bride-review-jessie-buckley-and-christian-bale-are-magnetic-monsters-in-maggie-gyllenhaals-lumbering-punk-horror-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Bride!\u2019 Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Are Magnetic Monsters in Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s Lumbering Punk Horror Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">It\u2019s alive! I\u2019m talking about the legend of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7133966\/\">Frankenstein<\/a>.\u201d I thought the reanimated corpse of it came close to slipping off life support in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0868219\/\">Guillermo del Toro<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1312221\/\">Frankenstein<\/a>,\u201d a movie that, to me, was all baroque production design and no pulse. It was so top-heavy with lavish retro pomposity that it made me never want to see another \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1312221\/\">Frankenstein<\/a>\u201d movie again.<\/p>\n<p>But here we are, half a year later, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0350454\/\">Maggie Gyllenhaal<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088851\/\">The Bride<\/a>!\u201d Is it a horror movie? Not quite. An awards movie? No way. A potential hit? I doubt it. It\u2019s a scrappy punk feminist tragicomedy of l\u2019amour fou, a renegade take-off on the \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1312221\/\">Frankenstein<\/a>\u201d myth. And while the movie doesn\u2019t quite work \u2014 it lumbers along and blows fuses; it has lots of flesh and blood but not enough storytelling spine \u2014 there\u2019s a spark of audacity to it. It\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s alive! I\u2019m talking about the legend of \u201cFrankenstein.\u201d I thought the reanimated corpse of it came close to slipping off life support in Guillermo del Toro\u2019s \u201cFrankenstein,\u201d a movie that, to me, was all baroque production design and no pulse. 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