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76
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71
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68
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67
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67
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67
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67
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67
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66
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66
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65
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64
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64
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63
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63
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63
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62
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62
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62
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62
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61
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60
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59
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58
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58
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58
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58
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57
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57
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57
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57
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57
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57
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56
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55
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55
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55
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55
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55
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55
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Ring, The
DreamWorks Distribution LLC
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for thematic elements, disturbing images, language and some drug references
Starring
Naomi Watts,
Martin Henderson,
David Dorfman,
Brian Cox,
Jane Alexander,
Lindsay Frost,
Amber Tamblyn,
and
Rachael Bella
In this remake of one of Japan's biggest box office hits, Naomi Watts plays a journalist who discovers a mysterious videotape that is connected to several deaths.
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Ehren Kruger
Hiroshi Takahashi (1998 screenplay Ringu)
Kôji Suzuki (novel Ringu)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Gore Verbinski
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 4, 2003
Video: March 4, 2003
Theatrical: October 18, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
109 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / Japan |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
San Francisco Chronicle
C.W. Nevius
So good it's scary.

90
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The creepiest, clammiest, twitchiest squealfest in months. It offers, among its many pleasures, the happiness of safe fear.

80
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
At last Dreamworks has given us the stuff of nightmare.

80
Film Threat
Jim Agnew
Dark, disturbing and original throughout. You know that you’re going to see something a little different than your usual studio crap.

80
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The pickings are slim for scares this Halloween season (Ghost Ship, Below), so The Ring wins first prize by default.

80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
As a marriage of big-budget filmmaking and old-fashioned scare tactics, it easily ranks alongside last year's "The Others."

80
Time
Richard Schickel
An edgy, watchable film, but one that makes you feel more squeamish than screamish.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
The less said about The Ring, the better for you, the sooner-to-be-freaked-out.

75
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Ends up a few frames short of the perfect horror film, but very few.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
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.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The Ring, is going to be this year's version of the "Blair Witch" and "Sixth Sense" phenomenon.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
If your senses haven't been dulled by slasher films and gorefests, if you're a connoisseur of psychological horror, this is your ticket.

70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
A frighteningly good horror movie with enough solid scares to freeze the blood of ardent fans and newcomers alike.

70
Newsweek
David Ansen
This visually stunning movie serves up generous dollops of designer creepiness.
70
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A deviously engineered parasite that'll crawl under your skin and live in your nervous system for a while if you give it half a chance.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
It's a workmanlike, passably engrossing horror flick that copies well from the Japanese original. When it's good, it's not original, and when it's original, it's not so good.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Too many threads are left dangling and the movie ultimately proves too implausible to put alongside those horror classics.

63
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
What we have here is a suburban-legend movie stripped of rough edges and cut off from any depth that might have made it insidiously haunting.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
It's an understatement to say that The Ring is not your ordinary horror film. And never forget to rewind.

60
Slate
David Edelstein
The movie is meant to get into you like a virus, and it does.

60
LA Weekly
David Chute
In the final reel, the tension dissipates with a flabby hiss, as the film devolves into a banal, conventional ghost story.

58
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Never quite catches fire. They take a crackerjack premise and a comely, committed leading lady and turn in a merely OK film.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A stylish but distressingly generic and not particularly scary American remake of a phenomenally popular Japanese supernatural thriller that spawned two sequels and a TV miniseries.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Takes things too far by leaving about 75% of its questions unanswered. This isn't an artistic choice; it's screenwriting sloppiness, and it results in a profoundly dissatisfying experience.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
A creepy, oozy, dopey remake of the stylish 1998 Japanese thriller, "Ringu."

50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Has its creepy moments, but also its cliches.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
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.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The unworthy new Hollywood remake of Japan's horror phenomenon, ''Ring,'' has packed on a definite article and a whole lot of hooey.

50
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Comes across in muted fashion, with uninvolving characters and lack of genuine excitement or fright creating a second-rate, second-hand feel.

40
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
While impressively made, this impassive and cold feature fails, in a spectacular fashion, to deliver the thrills.

40
Film Threat
Rick Kisonak
Watts is extra-watchable and, as I say, the filmmaker does achieve a style and tone the script never comes close to living up to. Otherwise, Verbinski's adaptation of the 1998 Japanese hit "Ringu" misses the mark almost completely.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
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

30
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Requiring an enormous amount of suspended disbelief, the original Rings may be a culture-specific phenom; despite strenuous efforts to Americanize Nakata's field of bad dreams, the preview audience did a lot of cackling.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Won't kill you, but it could bore you half to death.
30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
It's an utter waste of Watts; there's not a trace here of the talent on display in Mulholland Drive, perhaps because the script doesn't bother to give her a character.


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