| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"The boo! factor is waaaay up there -- a nine on a scale of 10. But the makes-sense factor is something like a three, at best." more... |
C+ |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"Rarely has a more serious effort produced a less serious result..." more... |
C |
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder |
"The Ring ends up a few frames short of the perfect horror film, but very few." more... |
B |
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk |
"...makes a skin-crawling candidate for one of the scariest movies to hit the screen this year." more... |
B |
| E! Online |
"... transmits eerie imagery, nail-biting tension and excellent chills..." more... |
A- |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
"...remarkably original and terrifying..." more... |
A- |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"The supernatural elements don't always add up logically, but director Gore Verbinski is firmly in control of the film's strong visuals..." more... |
B+ |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
"One of the keys to making The Ring work as well as it does is the strong performance by (Naomi) Watts..." more... |
B |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...stylish but distressingly generic..." more... |
C |
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell |
"...while impressively made, this impassive and cold feature fails, in a spectacular fashion, to deliver the thrills." more... |
C- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"To describe The Ring, two adjectives leap to mind: spooky and lame." more... |
C |
San Francisco Chronicle
C.W. Nevius |
"...so good it's scary." more... |
A |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...delivers some genuinely scary moments." more... |
B |
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez |
"...seemingly manufactured for the Scream generation." more... |
C |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...ultimately it stops short of being truly effective." more... |
B- |
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