The Ring (2002) Critic Reviews

So good it's scary.Read the full review

The creepiest, clammiest, twitchiest squealfest in months. It offers, among its many pleasures, the happiness of safe fear.Read the full review

As a marriage of big-budget filmmaking and old-fashioned scare tactics, it easily ranks alongside last year's "The Others."Read the full review

The pickings are slim for scares this Halloween season (Ghost Ship, Below), so The Ring wins first prize by default.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Too many threads are left dangling and the movie ultimately proves too implausible to put alongside those horror classics.Read the full review

The movie is meant to get into you like a virus, and it does.Read the full review

The kind of dread dark horror film where you better hope nobody in the audience snickers, because the film teeters right on the edge of the ridiculous.Read the full review

Certainly acceptable. But no one seeing it is going to feel as spooked as executive producer Roy Lee. To make an audience feel that intensely, you need a different kind of director and a different kind of film.Read the full review