Here comes "The Bride!", Maggie Gyllenhaal's extremely messy, extremely inventive film that dares you to try to neatly fit it into one genre. It's a sort-of-musical, meta-sequel-reboot, comedy, love ...

The Bride! starts with Buckley conveying Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, in an inspired sequence that is best left to be discovered than analyzed in a review like this. We meet Buckley’s ...

And beyond her protagonist, Gyllenhaal’s daring script contains a handful of radical conceits, from making a character of Mary Shelley herself, to setting her action in Prohibition-era America, to ...