"Carrie" received widespread critical acclaim and was cited as one of the best films of the year. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 93% based on 67 reviews, with an average rating of 8.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""Carrie" is a horrifying look at supernatural powers, high school cruelty, and teen angst—and it brings us one of the most memorable and disturbing prom scenes in history." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating based on reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 85 out of 100, based on 14 critics.