Photo: Warner Bros. Goddamn, I would love to have loved The Bride! , the latest from Maggie Gyllenhaal, whose directorial debut, The Lost Daughter , was my favorite of 2021. It’s a film that uses James Whale’s 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein as the jumping-off point for a horror-gangster-musical-romance mashup starring Jessie Buckley as the titular reanimated character and Christian Bale as Frank, her stitched-together swain. Whatever its other qualities, The Bride! is unquestionably a huge