The Ring: Critic Reviews

72%

MovieWeb: 9 reviews

71%

RottenTomatoes: 186 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

A very elegantly crafted piece of gothic snuff hokum.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Elvis Mitchell New York Times (Top Critic)

40

While impressively made, this impassive and cold feature fails, in a spectacular fashion, to deliver the thrills.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

Full Review » 9 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

63

At times, the suspense is palpable, but by the end there's a sense that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicality that strains credulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

The creepiest, clammiest, twitchiest squealfest in months.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

Trades on a tiresomely familiar conceit: death by videotape.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

50

There's nothing happening behind all the imagistic dada.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Michael Atkinson Village Voice (Top Critic)

By-the-book Hollywood remake.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Eric Harrison Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

67

A thought-provoking horror film that packs a visceral wallop.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Chris Vognar Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

67

Even if The Ring has a familiar ring, it's still unusually crafty and intelligent for Hollywood horror.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Steven Rosen Denver Post (Top Critic)

88

It's far better than most gimmicky horror films.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Robert K. Elder Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

75

Even if parts don't hold up in the daylight, the chill will stick to your bones.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

50

More likely to have you scratching your head than hiding under your seat.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

Full Review » 8 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

50

Full Review » 9 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

OK, you might buy that a mischievous she-demon could imprint a VCR tape with disturbing, chaotic images, but the "Be Kind, Rewind" sticker is a bit much.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)

I found The Ring moderately absorbing, largely for its elegantly colorful look and sound.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

Full Review » 3 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

50

Stylish but distressingly generic and not particularly scary.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

60

There is ... a sustained atmosphere of dread.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

40

With its hints of a greater intelligence lurking somewhere, The Ring makes its stupidity more than obvious. It's painful.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

At best, it's a workmanlike, passably engrossing horror flick that copies well from the Japanese original.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com (Top Critic)

A deviously engineered parasite that'll crawl under your skin and live in your nervous system for a while if you give it half a chance.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

The movie seems to have been slapped together without concern about whether anything makes sense.
Full Review » 10 years ago