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

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

A tired, unneeded copy of Brian De Palma's far superior work, with the small changes it makes adding nothing of significance.

| Original Score: C | Apr 23, 2015

Peirce wants to make a hit, and, even with source material this strange, it feels as though she has. But if so, that's all she has made.

| Dec 10, 2013

This is a sturdy tale that deserves to find a new audience. It's just a shame they won't find anything new in the process.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2013

You would have trouble arguing for any significant shift in perspective.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2013

It looks uncannily at home in 2013.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 29, 2013

This glossy modern horror refit is a pale shadow of Brian De Palma's seminal 1976 film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2013

Moretz replicates Laurie's pixie-featured Medusa gaze while Moore does the Spacek flayed-skull look.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2013

What the movie loses in kicky sensationalism, it sometimes gains in psychological nuance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2013

The result is efficient, but only tentatively updated to the digital age of cyberbullying and social media, and it is strangely pointless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2013

Chloe Moretz is unnervingly talented, but Carrie is not a role she was born to play. She hasn't a victim's bone in her body and fluffs the early scenes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 26, 2013

A remake that doesn't see the legacy of Carrie White burn in hell. But not one that adds much to it either.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 25, 2013

What makes it execrable is the way it drains the original movie of all its erotic tension, only to ramp up the final-act violence.

| Nov 4, 2013

Carrie has proved itself to be a remarkably resilient tale that's not likely to be plugged up anytime soon.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2013

It is a timeless thing for all of us, the ritual of high-school expectation and heartache. Once again, as it did nearly 40 years ago, Carrie turns it into an experience of biblical proportions.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 22, 2013

The movie is very good, both as a first-order viewing experience and as a contemporary gloss on Brian De Palma's classic 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's novel.

| Oct 21, 2013

Peirce is gifted, but she lacks the ability of directors like DePalma to transform schlock into something deeply personal.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 18, 2013

The new Carrie isn't atrocious - just flat and uninspired and compromised by the kind of mindless teen-movie "humanism" that De Palma so punkishly spat on.

| Oct 18, 2013

There's a lot to like in this remake. It's sincerely interested in exploring the pain that its characters suffer and inflict.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2013