| 90 |
Village Voice
A smart, realist drama -- I wouldn't be surprised if this one winds up on my 10-best list for '99.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Does what good horror movies do: It taps into the baser emotions.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
Emily Bergl plays the misfit heroine -- pale Goth grrrl Rachel Lang -- with a nicely sulky empathy, equal parts hurt and hope.
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| 60 |
Los Angeles Times
Dares to take a different tack, taking its young people seriously in a more realistic context. If ever there was a director ready to graduate from genre films, it surely is Shea. [12 March, 1999, Calendar, p.F-6]
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| 60 |
Chicago Reader
Even as you're wincing at what you thought was misguided earnestness, it's being subverted by filmmakers who've turned many of the genre's weaknesses into tiny triumphs.
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| 50 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Better than an opportunistic sequel has any right to be, but still pretty flawed.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
Anita Gates
Uninspired Update, Unintentional Laughs.
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| 50 |
USA Today
The original was a Midol moment, this is a Prozac exercise. [12 March 1999, Life, p.8E]
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Carrie is back and she's all the rage.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
It's not a cheap rip-off -- it's a credible sequel to a horror classic, and a sad reminder that some things never change.
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| 50 |
ReelViews
I have never been a fan of the original Carrie, but, despite the different slant offered by The Rage, there's not enough new material here for me to like the sequel any better.
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| 50 |
Salon.com
The surprise of the movie is that it actually does have a talented director and star. It doesn't begin to make up for the low quality of the story or the numerous other unfortunate elements, but it does suggest little flashes of something that, with more thought, might actually have been somewhat interesting.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The original "Carrie'' worked because it was a skillful teenage drama grafted onto a horror ending. Also, of course, because De Palma and his star, Sissy Spacek, made the story convincing. The Rage: Carrie 2 is more like a shadow.
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| 40 |
Variety
As generic in every aspect as Brian De Palma's original was inventive.
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| 38 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
It's possible to insult even a teenager's intelligence.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
The sequel is about nothing more profound than an awkward teenager's desire for a really cute boyfriend. [12 March 1999, Friday, p.N]
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| 30 |
Newsweek
B.J. Sigesmund
It's just a standard, mediocre horror flick that wants to be taken seriously. The creators missed the point entirely: even teenagers know that there's no audience for this type of film anymore.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Examiner
Maybe there's a real use for Carrie 2 after all. Stand it up against the original, and you have a pretty good lesson in what's happened to the movies in the last couple of decades.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
Only reason to watch this: the grisly reward Irving receives for being in this picture.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
Toils in high school hell and doesn't even manage to come up with one good shock.
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| 20 |
LA Weekly
A truly dreadful sequel.
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