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

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

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

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

Full Review | 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

The Ring is easily the most terrifying movie to come out of Hollywood in years.

| Jul 25, 2014

The movie's nifty beginning-all anxiety and dread-suggests that the audience is in for a fearful ride, but the one-dimensional story quickly runs out of fuel.

| Jul 25, 2014

It's a treasure hunt reduced to isolated jolts and more clues than you can shake a stick at (every fly on the wall and child's drawing bristles with unholy significance), and an utter waste of Watts.

| May 29, 2011

This movie is very, very scary.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2010

A stylish Hollywood remake of the Japanese horror sensation that unfortunately has little personality of its own.

Full Review | Jan 2, 2009

Elegantly shot by Bojan Bazelli and designed by Tom Duffield, with a chilling Hans Zimmer score, this visually stunning movie serves up generous dollops of designer creepiness.

| Nov 1, 2007

As a concept, it's flawed. As a remake, it's good. As modern horror, it's a firecracker.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Not everything it might have been, then, but decent enough to have you tracking down the original.

| Feb 9, 2006

This is a ghost story where the ghost doesn't really do too much and a character's psychological torment mainly gets inflicted by themselves.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

It's disappointing, losing most of the original's flavour, while retaining and amplifying what was muddled and unsatisfying about it in the first place.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 25, 2003

This dud by director Gore Verbinski is being marketed as if it were the scariest thing since The Blair Witch Project. The only shock is how incomprehensible it all is.

| Feb 22, 2003

Gore Verbinski creates beautifully-composed pictures of unpleasantness throughout -- moments that sneak around the memory for days after viewing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 4, 2002

I found The Ring moderately absorbing, largely for its elegantly colorful look and sound.

| Nov 6, 2002