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New horror-romance The Bride earns mixed first reviews, as critics call it everything from "a modern classic" to a "wokified, Jokerfied Folie-a-deux"

It's a monster mash-up of opinions

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The Bride! star Christian Bale 'cherry-picked' from previous Frankenstein depictions

Christian Bale has revealed that he took his favourite bits from previous portrayals of Frankenstein into his depiction of Mary Shelley's famous monster in Maggie Gyllenhaal's new movie The Bride!.

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Is The Bride! A Love Story? Christian Bale Has Some Harsh Thoughts About The Romance Genre

The new movie reimagines The Bride Of Frankenstein.

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The Bride! Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Stitched Together The Most Fun, Feral And Fantastic Frankenstein Movie Yet

A masterpiece on every level.

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Christian Bale Has a Message for Whoever Takes on Patrick Bateman: “Whoever Wants to Give it a Shot, Give it a Pop”

My name is Patrick Bateman...

The Mary Sue

The Bride! review: Everybody do the monster mash!

4/5 Jessie Buckley is a graveyard smash in this balls-to-the-wall retelling of Mary Shelley’s feminist fever dream

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The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife

The actor has a blast as bride to Christian Bale’s lonely creature in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s darkly comic and gleefully bizarre reimagining of the 1935 film

The Guardian - UK

91 Years Later, The Definitive Horror Sequel Just Got The Reimagining No One Asked For

Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride!' is a stylish, garish, and soulless "sequel" to Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

Inverse

The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punky revival isn’t as feminist as it thinks it is

3/5 The ‘Hamnet’ star reunites with her ‘Lost Daughter’ director on this playful and imaginative yet somewhat baffling experiment

The Independent UK

‘The Bride!’ Review: A Joyful Celebration of Female Rage and Adaptations

Punk rock love is the best kind

The Mary Sue

The director and ‘The Bride!’ Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley dare you to meet your monster

Maggie Gyllenhaal turns “The Bride!”

The Independent UK

The Bride's violence was "pulled back" after test screenings, but director Maggie Gyllenhaal stands by what was kept in: "This isn't the Stormtrooper version of killing people"

Maggie Gyllenhaal says she was "taken to task" on The Bride's violence following early test screenings

Total Film

Christian Bale says it's a "bold choice" to remake American Psycho: "Whoever wants to give it a shot, give it a pop!"

Luca Guadagnino's remake still hasn't found its Patrick Bateman

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The Independent UK

Jake Gyllenhaal reads meaningful note sister Maggie left for him in Late Show couch

Jake stars in his older sister’s new movie, ‘The Bride!’

Total Film

Penelope Cruz says it was "a pleasure" to "express a lot of rage" in new horror-romance The Bride: "Through a character like that, you can release so many things"

Exclusive: New monster movie The Bride allowed Penelope Cruz to "express" a lot of things she's "not been able to say as a woman"

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Maggie Gyllenhaal was asked to make big change to The Bride

Following test screenings, Maggie Gyllenhaal was asked to tone down the violence in The Bride.

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Christian Bale reveals what he really thinks about new American Psycho remake

Christian Bale played Patrick Bateman in the original 2000 adaptation of American Psycho, and he thinks the new movie is a "bold choice".

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Christian Bale: Everyone has chaos to them

Christian Bale has reflected on the challenges of playing Frankenstein's monster in The Bride!.

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Christian Bale promises Heat 2 will be "something great", as he reveals he's come close to sharing the screen with Leonardo DiCaprio before: "Never ended up working together"

Exclusive: The former Batman actor is teasing "great" things from Michael Mann's Heat follow-up

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Christian Bale "cherry-picked" his version of Frankenstein's monster from the bits Mary Shelley and Boris Karloff "got right" for The Bride: "'Oh, apparently he's got a flat head'? That's wrong"

Exclusive: The Bride star Christian Bale opens up on his more human version of Frankenstein's monster

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'They’re Taking A Big Swing.' Christian Bale Actually Thought He Had ‘The Wrong Script’ When He First Read The Bride

In theaters this Friday.

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Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

Undead brides, daydreaming waitresses, and teenage detectives - this week sees the return of iconic fictional characters and more. Here's what to look out for.

The Independent UK

New on Netflix this month, including ‘best film of 2025’ with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score

Hugely acclaimed movie is being added to streaming service

The Independent UK

Shia LaBeouf claims he ‘doesn’t have drinking problem’ before getting arrested again on battery charge

A judge in New Orleans ordered the actor to attend rehab

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