Even before Ida (Jessie Buckley) becomes a black-bile-spewing revenant, you wouldn’t call her a proper lady. At a shady gin joint in Chicago, 1936, she’s vacant-eyed, slurring, and lurching in her ...

"It’s easy to see director Maggie Gyllenhaal is an old movie buff," Bruce Miller writes. "In her latest, 'The Bride!,' she references movies from the 1930s, 'Bonnie and Clyde' and, of course, 'The ...