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Metascore
36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenThis visually stunning movie serves up generous dollops of designer creepiness.
- 63USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigToo many threads are left dangling and the movie ultimately proves too implausible to put alongside those horror classics.
- 63The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyIt'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.
- 60SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinThe movie is meant to get into you like a virus, and it does.
- 50Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranCertainly 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.
- 50VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyComes across in muted fashion, with uninvolving characters and lack of genuine excitement or fright creating a second-rate, second-hand feel.
- 50Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisThe unworthy new Hollywood remake of Japan's horror phenomenon, ''Ring,'' has packed on a definite article and a whole lot of hooey.
- 40The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottWhile impressively made, this impassive and cold feature fails, in a spectacular fashion, to deliver the thrills.
- 38New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsI 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