The Bride!

"Maggie Gyllenhaal's feminist reimagining of The Bride of Frankenstein is both powerful and radical, but narratively unruly."

"Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! doesn't believe in leaving anything unsaid. That The Bride! and the Bride don't wilt under these expectations is the powerhouse performance by Buckley, who is game to every mercurial emotion demanded of her role. The Bride! too works the best when it is not trying too hard."

"Yet, the experience of watching it involves a constant awareness of its fragility, because every new flourish is perched perilously on the edge of collapse, and the film repeatedly proves how difficult it is to sustain such a baroque assemblage without the seams giving way and the underlying machinery spilling into view. Despite these strengths, the film eventually becomes exhausting, partly because the script piles ideological declarations, grotesque violence, and flamboyant spectacle into a restless swirl that rarely clarifies its own intentions."