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The Bride! director's first film starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal now streaming
Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal starred together in director Maggie Gyllenhaal's first film, The Lost Daughter, which is currently streaming on Netflix
Among all the directorial debuts made by actors in this century, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Elena Ferrante adaptation “The Lost Daughter” (2021) has a special place. Nominated for Oscars in Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress,
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 del Toro presented his lavish “Frankenstein,
Director Maggie Gyllenhaal is throwing her hat into the ring with a new Frankenstein movie.
Visually stunning but narratively sloppy, The Bride! is a messy monster mash that’s far from a graveyard smash.
Discover if Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! is a remake or a new Mary Shelley adaptation. Explore how the film gives the character a fresh perspective.
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley mean to make you uncomfortable in their confrontational monster movie The Bride!
The Bride! is Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial sophomore following The Lost Daughter (2021). Jessie Buckley stars as the bride of Frankenstein who gets to tell her story. The film is riven with too much indulgence and inconsistency to land anywhere bracing as a corrective expansion on the source text.