Overall, RINGS is sadly disappointing.

| Original Score: D | Mar 22, 2017

The cursed video now looks like an experimental film made by somebody who has watched more Marilyn Manson videos than Stan Brackhage pieces. It does, however, provide clues to a mystery that really isn't worth solving.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 3, 2017

The characters are grossly incompetent, in addition to being vapid, and devoid of common sense. They each deserved what they get because each death meant the film was closer to ending.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Feb 20, 2017

Rings proved to be nothing short of a complete waste of time, and if this video ended up on my laptop, tablet or any other digital device I'd delete it off of the hard drive without a second's hesitation.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 10, 2017

Pretty much everything about Rings is incoherent.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 10, 2017

Rings is an unfortunate and often incomprehensible mess that kicks off with a neat premise and then never fully explores it.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 9, 2017

In conceptualizing how it feels to be inescapably pursued by something that's embedded in your culture, 2015's It Follows is a much better sequel to The Ring.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2017

If crap movies carried penalties for inflicting torture on audiences, then Rings would merit a death sentence.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 4, 2017

Ring down the curtain, this franchise revival is not saved by the bell.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 4, 2017

It is cruel fate that planted Rings on a release date after we've learned that far scarier things can happen in seven days.

| Feb 4, 2017

Rings embodies a common problem of attempted franchise revivals: indecision about its intentions.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 3, 2017

In the end Rings didn't make me want to drink Drano. It had enough distractions but that's a low bar for a horror movie that includes D'Onofrio and Galecki, who could run rings around the rest of the cast given better material.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2017

It's not a terrible setup. But Rings doesn't end up doing much with its fresh ideas.

| Original Score: C | Feb 3, 2017

The biggest problem with all of this is the overwhelming sense of apathy the film brings to almost everything.

| Feb 3, 2017

Fans of the franchise will probably be pleased ... Too many horror sequels are content merely to recycle what worked the first time.

| Feb 3, 2017

It's just another thoughtless cash-grab sequel in a horror-movie franchise better off dead.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 3, 2017

Rings cannot make sense of the hodgepodge of old and new mythology, which confuses a Samara origin story that had already been settled in the other entries.

| Feb 3, 2017

The story of Samara Morgan, once potent nightmare fuel, has become less scary with each new iteration, culminating in this new, ridiculous installment directed by F. Javier Gutiérrez.

| Feb 3, 2017

After 100 minutes, you're dead from boredom.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 3, 2017

Mostly Rings offers the warmed-up leftovers of a style that hasn't felt fresh since the first George W. Bush administration. It's an unkind rewind.

| Feb 3, 2017