Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
positive
19(53%)
mixed
13(36%)
negative
4(11%)
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So good it's scary.
90
The creepiest, clammiest, twitchiest squealfest in months. It offers, among its many pleasures, the happiness of safe fear.
80
As a marriage of big-budget filmmaking and old-fashioned scare tactics, it easily ranks alongside last year's "The Others."
80
An edgy, watchable film, but one that makes you feel more squeamish than screamish.
80
The pickings are slim for scares this Halloween season (Ghost Ship, Below), so The Ring wins first prize by default.
80
Dark, disturbing and original throughout. You know that you’re going to see something a little different than your usual studio crap.
80
At last Dreamworks has given us the stuff of nightmare.
78
The less said about The Ring, the better for you, the sooner-to-be-freaked-out.
75
The Ring, is going to be this year's version of the "Blair Witch" and "Sixth Sense" phenomenon.
75
The best thing about the movie, which is a very elegantly crafted piece of gothic snuff hokum, is the way it teases and intrigues us with the revelation of what's on that tape.
