Carrie (2013)
Directed by Kimberly Peirce
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.
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What critics compared Carrie to
Unlike De Palma’s templated monster movie, Peirce’s dramatic thriller casts Carrie as a bullied victim pushed too far, and the deserving who earn her wrath are made to feel the brunt of it.
Brian De Palma’s Carrie was the second.
Not just the best horror in ages but a remarkably astute teen drama, "Carrie" will make those who have seen Brian De Palma's 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's novel see the story with entirely different eyes.
Those entirely unfamiliar with the 1976 Brian De Palma classic, the made-for-TV movie, or yes, the stage musical will likely find some merit in Kimberly Peirce’s version of Carrie, starring Chloë Grace Moretz in the title role.
They're pictures engaged in an examination (one that arguably began with Kimberly Peirce's egregiously-underrated Carrie reboot and Jonathan Glazer's extraordinary Under the Skin ) of female sexuality and the sometimes-literal trials by fire a woman goes through to emerge fully formed.