MOVIE REVIEWS: 'Carrie' Serves Up Scares For a New Audience

"Carrie" is rated R and runs one hour and 39 minutes.

Here's what the critics are saying:

Is “Carrie” a massive improvement over the original? No. De Palma’s film is a classic, and its theme of the bullied becoming the bully still resonates. But the new film, which includes some of the same lines from the original plus an even bigger bloodbath at the end, works for a new audience. — Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post

[Julianne] Moore’s captivating performance steals some of the thunder because very little else in the picture can rival it. — Karen D'Souza, The Salt Lake Tribune

Pressing such hot-button topics as mean girls, bullying and school shootings, "Carrie" feels not just modern but almost prescient. — Rafer Guzman, Newsday

Something's missing from this well-made venture. What's there is more than respectable, while staying this side of surprising. — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune


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