As heartbreaking as it is horrifying, Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's first novel is a near-masterpice.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 3, 2025

A perfect film. Exquisite performances, masterful direction, Pino Donaggio's impeccable score, and an unforgettable finale.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 29, 2025

Brian De Palma’s depiction of female adolescence is extremely dubious (the opening slow-mo shower scene is beyond icky), but this is a film that fundamentally fears women.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2024

It isn’t explicitly about school shootings and yet it shows you, like no other film I have ever seen, the horrifying wish-fulfilment ecstasy of such horrific acts. De Palma is the only director who could have done it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 17, 2024

…Carrie the book is fairly raw, but this slick, concise film synthesises it into an effective, small scale horror that helped establish Stephen King as a household name…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2024

Carrie is a terrifying lyrical thriller. The director, Brian De Palma, has mastered a teasing style -- a perverse mixture of comedy and horror and tension.

| Jan 20, 2024

Carrie, in the end, is not a very serious film, but it is a rarity: a fun diversion that is truly enjoyable. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 15, 2023

Carrie is relentlessly torn down time and again by everyone around her, and the climactic prom event, taking on a split-screen style, perfectly illustrates the fractured mind of a person who just can't take it anymore.

| Jul 18, 2023

Grounded by the incredible and unforgettable performance of Sissy Spacek and the masterful direction of De Palma, Carrie is a horror masterpiece that defies convention and proves itself timeless.

| Jun 5, 2023

De Palma’s dreamy grace creates a lush cinematic beauty and Pino Donaggio’s romantic score (punctuated with violin screams out of Psycho) suggests an adolescent paradise about to be totally, terribly lost in nightmare.

| Mar 4, 2023

Like Jaws, here’s one of those rare instances when the movie is vastly superior to the book. What’s more, this box office hit easily remains the best adaptation of a Stephen King property (sorry, Shawshank and Shining groupies).

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 15, 2023

Packs an awful, primal wallop.

| Original Score: A | Nov 29, 2022

There's a power in Carrie, because 46 years later and it's still breaking our hearts, and remains ingrained in our psyches.

| Oct 29, 2022

Brian De Palma elevates what could have been a trashy exploitation picture into something mitigated by the angry empathy it places in the put-upon outsider.

| Jul 15, 2022

Such a prolonged derangement of expectation and release it feels almost pornographic.

| Apr 25, 2022

Carrie is a punishing experience, ever ready to deliver some inconceivable blow against the audience just after the director has deceived us into thinking both Carrie and the audience were safe.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

The editing at the conclusion is spectacularly effective, riddled with slow motion, split frames, monochromatic imagery, the cutting out of sounds, and, finally, screams.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 27, 2020

Brian de Palma is destined to be a great American director.

| Oct 28, 2019

Still disturbing, it still creeps me out and makes me dread it. It's unsettling, incredibly brutal, and satisfying by the end.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 24, 2019

The acting takes me out of the movie. There's just some weird stuff going on here...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2019