"The Bride," written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Jessie Buckley, flopped at the box office. Why? Watch our video to find out.

If there were a checklist of things female characters are supposed to do in order to be "empowered," The Bride! ticks them all. And yet.

Jessie Buckley achieves such a fine and daring visual effect as the reanimated Bride that for a little while there, I thought writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal might really have locked into something ...