The new Carrie offers no fresh insights into the material and delivers far less than what De Palma achieved both thematically and cinematically.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 22, 2022

There's also a terrifically understated performance by Judy Greer...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2022

Just terrible pointless junk

| Jul 6, 2021

Generally there's too much CGI - the floating books are silly - and since when can Carrie fly?

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

Carrie resonates for women in particular because it touches on so much of the horror of becoming female that it's almost too real. I love that Kimberly Piece chose to honor that horror faithfully, even if it doesn't make for a radical re-visioning.

| Jan 20, 2021

This is the epitome of pointless movie remakes.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Dec 3, 2020

Kimberly Peirce takes a classic film and manages to be both faithful to the original while breathing new life into it.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Why a new version? Why a remake? Why a reimagination? The answer is because this new 2013 Carrie from director Kimberly Peirce is just that - a reimagination that harkens back to the original source material - [Stephen] King's novel.

| Jan 7, 2020

Moretz plays Carrie as either a constantly petrified, meek outcast or a grimacing destroyer. Peirce fails to build a connection between audience and protagonist.

| Aug 14, 2019

While this quality remake will never be regarded in the same way, it achieves all the right shocks in a majorly unsettling way.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 17, 2019

The ambition of Peirce, Moretz, and Moore shines through in the film's strongest moments, and though the supporting players and shaky contemporary revisions weigh the film down, Peirce deserves credit for putting up one hell of a fight.

| Original Score: 7.4/10 | Apr 11, 2019

This is a film that is all about the iconic prom sequence, which is staged well by director Kimberly Peirce, but there really isn't much more to the film.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 9, 2019

Pulls off the unenviable task of being both respectful to the original whilst spicing the story with enough fresh twists that it doesn't appear like a scene-by-scene retread of its forebear.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2019

There are a lot of good things here: the updates Pierce added make perfect sense, I really loved the special F/X, the score is AMAZING, and the casting is gorgeous.

| Mar 2, 2019

There is no way for this Carrie to become a classic -- it is far too close to the earlier film to escape its shadow. However, it works perfectly well and is worth seeing, except for those who abhor the whole notion of remakes.

| Original Score: B | Jan 19, 2019

It is certainly asking a lot to buy into the shoddy remake of Brian De Palma's 1976 macabre masterpiece Carrie. There needed to be more shock-inducing significance poured onto this callow Carrie besides the standby bucket of pig's blood

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 16, 2018

A near word-for-word remake... Kimberly Peirce's version of Carrie is an unnecessary update with its own charm nonetheless (and 100 percent less full-frontal nudity, thankfully).

| Nov 16, 2018

Watching the remake of Carrie [over the original] is like replacing your phone with a newer version of the exact same phone.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 1, 2018

Director Kimberly Peirce delivers a worthy remake to a horror classic, while offering enough changes to make it seem fairly fresh.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 12, 2018

While [Chloe Grace Moretz] makes a believable prom queen swan, she's less convincing as an awkward ugly duckling.

| Aug 30, 2018