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,

That annoyingly emphatic exclamation mark in the title isn’t just there for looks; it’s emblematic of the movie’s overkill

Maggie Gyllenhaal has transformed Frankenstein’s Bride into a bizarre modern spectacle starring the Jessie Buckley that is taking on Wuthering Heights. With a weird monster movie and the return of Ghostface, horror rules on the big screen this week. Starring: Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Annette Bening, Penelope Cruz, Jake Gyllenhaal.

It’s the kind of original take that we don’t see a lot of in big budget filmmaking these days, and perfectly illustrating that point is the fact that its originality led star Christian Bale to think that he had gotten his hands on a “wrong” script.

Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessie Buckley, Peter Sarsgaard, and Penélope Cruz discuss character creation, defying genre, and essential scene partners.

Jessie Buckley commands Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride,' but the feminist horror movie is both conspicuously DC-coded and bizarrely behind the times.

There have been a lot of takes on Frankenstein’s monster over the years, but Christian Bale wasn’t interested in copying anyone for The Bride! . Instead, he went back to the source material, sifted through decades of film history,