The Bride!
Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal
- ርልዪረ6 april 2026Is it a coincidence that theater chains are struggling badly in 2026 while most of the films meant to bring in audiences are flat out terrible? I always go in hoping for the next masterpiece until I'm disappointed. In the case of "The Bride!" it didn't take long. This film is plagued by jumbled ideas, incoherent dialogue that often isn't discernible and feels like rambling at times and a director in over her head. Look, I'm a fan of Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal as actors but Maggie has a long way to go as a director. Jake is just about completely wasted here. The great Christian Bale is limited by the script and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there was a bunch of improvising here. I was really looking forward to a fresh take on classic tale and it really disappointed. Here's hoping that the slate of 2026's films going forward are much better, because so far, they've been quite disappointing and bad and "The Bride" is no different. I would NOT Recommend "The Bride!".
- ricomckee10 april 2026This movie is just terrible. It is obvious this was someones vanity project as the stars in it show that someone thought this would be brilliant. However, it is not fun, it is not campy, it is not horror, it is not artsy...it is just bad with attempts to make it seem like it is high art. In reality... it is just terrible.
- Hipster ZOMBIE14 maart 2026Not sure why Frankenstein has been such a popular property Hollywood has desperately tried to pump woke ideology into over the past 3-4 years but The Bride is another Frankenstein film that fails to hit the mark. It wants to be seen as artsy and daring like Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein film. However, director Maggie Gyllenhall instead does everything she can to steer clear of what makes the tragic monster unique and instead wants to make the film an odd mashup of The Great Gatsby and Joker: Folie a Deux. Christian Bale plays Frankenstein like a simp while Jessie Buckley really tries hard and sometimes achieves moments of greatness as the Bride. However, the script doesn’t do any of the actors any favors and ultimately the film descends into yet another preachy woke story that not only misses the point, it fails to make a convincing one. And don’t get me started on the cringe inducing dance numbers. On paper, the idea of a Bonnie and Clyde/Frankenstein and his Bride mashup sounds great. Maybe in a better director’s hands it could have been. Bottom line, this film is one Bride that audiences should leave at the altar.
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The Bride! was released on 4 maart 2026.
The Bride! was directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
The Bride! has a runtime of 2 u, 6 m.
The Bride! was produced by Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Talia Kleinhendler, Osnat Handelsman-Keren.
Een eenzame “Frank” reist af naar het Chicago van de jaren 30 om de baanbrekende wetenschapper Dr. Euphronious te vragen een metgezel voor hem te creëren. Samen wekken ze een vermoorde jonge vrouw weer tot leven en zo ontstaat The Bride. Maar wat daarop volgt, hadden ze geen van beiden kunnen voorzien: Moord! Bezetenheid! Een radicale culturele verschuiving! En twee geliefden in een explosieve relatie die op de vlucht moeten voor de wet!
The key characters in The Bride! are Ida / The Bride / Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley), Frank (Christian Bale), Jake Wiles (Peter Sarsgaard).
The Bride! is rated 16.
The Bride! is a Drama, Horror, Romantiek film.
The Bride! has an audience rating of 7 out of 10.
The Bride! had a budget of US$ 80 mln..
The Bride! has made US$ 23,8 mln. at the box office.