Carrie
Screen Gems | Release Date: October 18, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
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Mixed or average reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
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11
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18
Negative:
5
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60
Total FilmJamie GrahamNov 29, 2013
One of the more solid ’70s horror remakes, but it lacks the verve and potency, romance and heartache of the original. Still, the haircuts are a vast improvement... Read full review
60
Time Out LondonCath ClarkeNov 26, 2013
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 when the mean girls pick on her. Read full review
60
EmpireMark DinningNov 25, 2013
A remake that doesn’t see the legacy of Carrie White burn in hell. But not one that adds much to it either. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfOct 18, 2013
Only Julianne Moore, as the Bible-thumping mom, has an instinct to go softer — how couldn’t she, after Piper Laurie? — and paradoxically, it’s a move that feels wrong, the role requiring its cantatory bigness. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyOct 17, 2013
Peirce has done a remaking rather than a reimagining. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierOct 17, 2013
Where Sissy Spacek seemed otherworldly and haunted in De Palma’s film, Moretz (“Hugo,” “Kick-Ass”) is sadder. She’s a terrific young actress. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyOct 17, 2013
If De Palma’s version was one part adolescent dream, three parts nightmare, with a sly streak of satire running through it, Peirce’s is a more earnest yet still engrossing take on the story that should connect with contemporary teens. At the very least it might send fledgling horror buffs scurrying to their Netflix queues to watch a vintage masterpiece of the genre. Read full review
60
VarietyJustin ChangOct 17, 2013
Director Kimberly Peirce’s intermittently effective third feature eschews De Palma’s diabolical wit and voluptuous style in favor of a somber, straight-faced retelling, steeped in a now-familiar horror-movie idiom of sharp objects, shuddering sound effects and dark rivulets of blood. Read full review
58
Film.comWilliam GossOct 17, 2013
Alas, despite the timeless concerns of adolescent bullying and burgeoning sexuality, Carrie as a film fails to become its own satisfyingly whole interpretation of coming-of-age horrors both literal and figurative. Its bloodshed may be all dressed up, but it ultimately has nowhere to go. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliOct 20, 2013
There are problems with De Palma's version, especially in its portrayal of the key relationship between Carrie and her mother, but it's a more engaging and insightful portrayal than Kimberly Peirce's too-slick remake. Read full review
50
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreOct 20, 2013
So yes, even if you know how this story goes, there are moments that work wickedly well in between the needlessly drawn out ones, by which I mean the entire, predictable third act. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigOct 17, 2013
Rather than offering new blood, Carrie is a purely cosmetic revamp. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerOct 17, 2013
This Carrie comes off like a Lifetime film, adding little new and nothing substantial to improve on DePalma’s classic. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezOct 17, 2013
This Carrie becomes less involving as it goes along, ceding its emotional power to special effects and unconvincing gore, and culminating with a closing shot so lame and uninspired, it’s as if the filmmakers just gave up and called it a day. Read full review
50
The DissolveNathan RabinOct 17, 2013
Despite the talent involved and the notoriety of the source material, Carrie feels strangely small, even television-sized. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Oct 17, 2013
It’s a strange thing to say about a movie so obsessed with the red stuff, but this Carrie is bloodless. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinOct 20, 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. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzOct 17, 2013
Comparisons are unfair and inevitable. But even when taken on its own terms, the new Carrie rings hollow, a horror movie that is unsure of itself, with little to offer the uninitiated and less to offer fans of the first film. Read full review
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