I will continue to update this post as reviews come in.
Rotten Tomatoes: N/A
Critics Consensus: N/A
| Critics | Score | Number of Reviews | Average Rating (Unofficial) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Critics | 49% | 35 | 5.2 |
| Top Critics | 47% | 17 | ?? |
Metacritic: 57 (22 Reviews – 12 positive/7 neutral/3 negative)
Sample Reviews:
SYNOPSIS:
From Maggie Gyllenhaal (Academy Award-nominated writer/director of The Lost Daughter) and starring Academy Award nominee Jessie Buckley and Academy Award winner Christian Bale comes THE BRIDE! A bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world’s most compelling stories.
A lonely Frankenstein (Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (five-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride (Buckley) is born. What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined: Murder! Possession! A wild and radical cultural movement! And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance!
CAST:
- Jessie Buckley as Ida / The Bride / Mary Shelley
- Christian Bale as Frank / Frankenstein's Monster
- Peter Sarsgaard as Detective Jake Wiles
- Annette Bening as Dr. Euphronious
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Ronnie Reed
- Penélope Cruz as Myrna Mallow
DIRECTED BY: Maggie Gyllenhaal
SCREENPLAY BY: Maggie Gyllenhaal
PRODUCED BY: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Talia Kleinhendler, Osnat Handelsman Keren
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Carla Raij, David Webb, Courtney Kivowitz
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Lawrence Sher
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Karen Murphy
EDITED BY: Dylan Tichenor
COSTUME DESIGNER: Sandy Powell
MUSIC BY: Hildur Gudnadóttir
MUSIC SUPERVISOR: Randall Poster
CASTING BY: Douglas Aibel
RUNTIME: 126 Minutes
RELEASE DATE: March 6, 2026
by SilverRoyce
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not this having worse reviews than Wuthering Heights 💀
It currently has a 54% with 24 reviews, certainly not good so far. I’m a bit disappointed, I was kinda curious about this one
Edit: Now it’s 47 with 34 reviews, I don’t see this one going up unfortunately
Edit 2: IT WENT BACK UP TO 60% FRESH WIH 48 REVIEWS! BRIDEBROS, WE ARE SO BACK
Welp… the Abdy and De Luca streak had to end at some point.
These reviews insane literally saw one review say it’s the worst movie they ever saw then another one praising it to the high heavens ngl makes me want to see it more
A couple of my regular critics are all over the map with this one, guess that was to be expected given how late they held embargo.
The Bride starts with 61 on Metacritic based on 16 reviews and 54% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 24 reviews.
My friend thought it looked cool in trailer 1 but when we saw Wuthering Heights(btw very awkward movie to see with a friend who’s a girl LMAO) and she saw trailer 2, she turned to me in the theater and said “what’s with all the singing and dancing shit?” and now has no interest.
Side note she also gave me a huge eye roll during the trailer when he said “the Bride of Frankenstein” and she said “no it’s just The Bride”.
As for the reviews, I’m kinda shocked. I thought the trailers were great and looked like total critic catnip. I expected an 85% at minimum. Looks like it’s really pulling a Joker in look and how divisive it is though.
Also lmfao at Jeremy Jahns whining about how only “fEmInIsTs” will like it in his review.
Consensus is split down the middle. Some critics loved it, some absolutely despised it. Me personally, this makes it much more interesting but I’ll be seeing Hoppers instead, and that’s probably gonna go for everyone else too
take a shot every time someone politely calls it a Big Swing
Trailers looked bad to me. This feels like a very niche movie for a certain niche audience.
Oof. Not looking good.
Already the opening looks not too good (what like 40 mil ww at best?… could be lower) and the legs are likely gonna be not good. It needed good reception and reviews for word of mouth.
Going to flop. Oh well.
Gonna flounder a bit and I think it’ll stop at 48%. That 90 million budget is looking ridiculous now lol
As I expected, mixed reviews from critics, get ready for very divisive reactions from audiences this weekend and probably tank at the box office.
I’m more excited for The Bride saga than i am for the actual movie
It’s giving me Sucker Punch vibes (not a fan of it personally but I know that it has a cult following)
I always knew this was gonna be a strange one. One look at the trailer could tell me that.
With that in mind the reviews are making me even more interested to see what is it. This movie has cult classic written over it I feel. Or maybe it’s just bad? I’ll find out this weekend when I go see it
I was excited when they announced this, but every single piece of marketing has turned me off more and more. Not really a big surprise it’s a miss.
When you go for it, sometimes it hits and sometimes it doesn’t. Sounds like in this case, it really didn’t work out
Two Frankenstein movies in less than 90 days is one too many.
Damn this is gonna be a ginormous bomb with that budget and these reviews
Oof, maybe there’s a reason why Netflix dropped it
Surprised this is even hovering around 50%. The trailers were absolutely awful.
To be honest I didn’t have high hopes for this Maggie Gyllenhaal movie. Her movies are weak
Not surprising when the movie looked like shit.
High budget auteur WB movie.
March release.
Extremely polarizing.
Box office bomb.
Welcome back Mickey 17.
Ahhhhh, that’s not what this movie needed.
not surprised by these reviews. sucks for jessie buckley.
Hoppers about to hop on The Brides Corpes.
Also, calling Bale’s character Frank is a bit precious.
up to 57% after dipping to 47%. Wow this one is interesting to follow. Insane how divisive it is too, every single review I’ve seen says it’s either incredible or terrible thus far.
Now it’s up to 57% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Reviews aren’t looking good so now the hope is that its gonna be a misunderstood cult classic
WB really put out a third joker movie
i do hope i enjoy this but with these reviews there is no way in hell its making its money back
I’m guessing this is likely bad. Wuthering Heights got a higher score even with mixed reviews.
Rotten Tomatoes score has gone up, it’s now at 60% with 47 reviews.
So how low do you think its box office will go? Will it at least reach 100m globally?