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It’s a lot less male-gaze-y than the 1976 version (hey, look, the shower scene works fine without all the gratuitous nudity! Aren’t these things called towels wonderful?!), which is nice.

Julianne Moore is great as Carrie’s mum. Chloë Grace Moretz is good, but I think she was miscast as Carrie. She just doesn’t ever quite come across as someone as downtrodden and insecure as Carrie is.

The plot deviates a bit from the 1976 version, and paints the action in a different light. I’ve not read the original book, so I’m not sure which is the closer adaptation, but this version is far less satisfying. It also doesn’t really seem to do much about the pacing issues I had in the older version, so the second act was still a drag.

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