Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! (2026) is marketed as a feminist film, going to great lengths to comment on violence against women, harassment, and gender inequality in the workplace. Two women occupy important narrative positions in the film, and both experience setbacks on account of their gender—Dr Cornelia Euphronious uses only her first initial and not her full name when publishing her academic papers, leading Frankenstein’s monster to assume they were written by a man, and Myrna Malloy is not taken seriously by her colleagues as a competent detective. The main antagonist is a man who cuts out the tongues of the women he murders and keeps them in a jar—a rather unsubtle point about the silencing of women.