A solid, moody horror flick, elevated by Gore Verbinski's elegant choices and Naomi Watt's lead performance. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 28, 2025

The Ring captivates audiences with its original concept, atmospheric horror, psychological thrills, compelling characters, and a twist ending that resonates long after the credits roll.

| Nov 8, 2023

It created a myth, one that drew upon the supernatural and, like assembling a dark puzzle, elements of modern life such as video recordings, technology, and most effectively a mystery full of portent.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 29, 2023

The Ring still shines in its own era of horror, bringing to Western audiences the terror of the J-horror while still remembering the masters that have come before it.

| Jul 1, 2023

The creepy video tape holds up as still very creepy. So does the movie.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 26, 2022

Even in this overproduced claptrap, Watts gives solid evidence of a bright future in engagingly flawed women

| Original Score: C | Sep 17, 2022

A horrifically terrifying film-going experience - to be sure. A horrifically terrifying film? No way.

| Nov 13, 2019

A thoroughly prosaic and prototypical spooker that commits the cardinal sin of devaluing what made the raw materials of its fable so original and powerful in the first place.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2018

This remake of a hugely successful Japanese horror film is very well acted by Naomi Watts. It's just not that scary.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 4, 2018

A very strong movie in all the ways you need a horror movie to be strong. But it is a movie that could very obviously be better.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 11, 2016

Gore Verbinski creates an air of dread that begins with the first scene and never lets up, subtly incorporating elements from the current wave of Japanese horror films along the way.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 25, 2014

One of the most intelligent and genuinely scary ghost stories to come around in a long time.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 25, 2014

The filmmakers have wisely stayed close to the original's mood, which is somber and flat, with quick (near-subliminal) inserts and a soundtrack full of watery-grave groans and murmurs.

| Jul 25, 2014

The Ring doesn't have the wiliness or conviction to exploit either a single mother's guilt over child neglect or our collective queasiness over potential bad seeds. It merely alternates these themes and toys with them.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 25, 2014

An edgy, watchable film, but one that makes you feel more squeamish than screamish.

| Jul 25, 2014

The Ring, about a videotape that kills people, is so full of inconsistencies and plot holes that I stumbled from a recent screening with few answers, and a ton of questions.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2014

The Ring, an elegantly creepy film set in a perpetual Seattle rainstorm, is interested more in eerie, unnerving thrills than bloodletting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2014

Watching The Ring won't kill you, but it could bore you half to death.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2014

The slow pace gives us too much time to think about the story's lapses in logic. And Verbinski's style is so conventional that the various scare devices and horror images he throws on the screen feel oddly more comforting than frightening.

| Jul 25, 2014

I hated it, but I grant that it does tap into a vein of technological horror -- the fear of the VCR! -- that will have young videophiles chatting it up for weeks.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 25, 2014