“Here comes the motherf–ing Bride!” author Mary Shelley roars directly down the barrel in the opening minutes of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s batty, bold, and beautiful dissection of The Bride of Frankenstein.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The Bride! also earned a “fresh” critic score from Caryn James of the BBC, who writes in her ...