The Best Movies of 2026 So Far

From a controversial Israeli film to Ryan Gosling in space — the cream of the cinematic crop at our year's halfway point.
Decider

Maggie Gyllenhaal's Dead On Arrival Flop 'The Bride!' Is Now Streaming On HBO Max — And It's Way More Alive Than You've Heard

It is the fate of the Universal Monster to be misunderstood. Technically speaking, the Bride of Frankenstein figure from Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, arriving on HBO Max after a vanishingly brief ...
IGN

Casper the Friendly Ghost Coming Back to Haunt Disney+

The cutest manifestation of death, Casper the Friendly Ghost, is getting a new live-action series at Disney+. It appears to be in safe hands too, with Steven Spielberg returning as an executive ...
IndieWire

Maggie Gyllenhaal on How ‘The Bride!’ Cracks Hollywood Fantasies Wide Open

"The Bride!" writer/director Gyllenhaal tells IndieWire about using genre tools to create a world that's as much the 1980s as it is the 1930s. The film features cheeky references to Ginger Rogers and ...
IndieWire

Don’t Let ‘The Bride!’ Box Office Bomb Give the Wrong Lesson About Ambition and Originality

With just $13.5 million globally against an $80 million production budget, Maggie Gyllenhaal's film is shaping up to be one of the bigger flops of 2026. For Warner Bros., it ends a streak of nine ...
Forbes

Here’s How Bad ‘The Bride!’ Bombed At The Box Office In Its Opening Weekend

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s monster mash The Bride! opened in theaters last Friday, but it’s already become a living nightmare for the acclaimed writer-director. Forbes‘The Bride!’: Stars Who Played Bride Of ...
Variety

5 Reasons ‘The Bride!’ Was Dead on Arrival at the Box Office

It’s alive, but it’s not exactly showing signs of life. Set in the 1930s, “The Bride!” follows a very lonely Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) and his undead love interest (Jessie Buckley) as ...
IGN

The Bride! Review

The Bride! is in theaters on March 6. Frankenstein's lightning-streaked bride has been an enduring image on screen ever since James Whale, the director of the original 1931 Frankenstein film, ...
collider

‘The Bride!’ Ends Warner Bros.’ 9-Movie Winning Streak at the Box Office After Divisive Reviews

Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also ...
The Conversation

A brief cinematic history of Frankenstein’s Bride as a feminist icon

Frankenstein’s female creature, also known as “the Bride”, was the first female monster to appear on screen, in the 1935 Frankenstein sequel: The Bride of Frankenstein. An unruly and rebellious figure ...
KPBS

'The Bride!' divorces itself from Mary Shelley's novel to deliver a feminist tale

Actress-turned-director Maggie Gyllenhaal has reimagined Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel “Frankenstein” as a new film with the Bride as the central character. So it’s fitting that "The Bride!" hits theaters ...