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Ring, The (2002) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Ring, The (2002) a score of 2.8463 out of 4

based on (319) reviews

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Excellent

(55)

Very Good

(196)

Good

(62)

Fair

(5)

Poor

(1)

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The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)

Very few of the elements are completely original, and I can't say every aspect of it makes sense in the end, but the movie as a whole has a fresh, exciting air about it. It maintains a palpable feeling of dread and tension primarily by implication...read the complete Ring, The (2002) review at The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)

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Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)

The less said about The Ring, the better for you, the sooner-to-be-freaked-out. Based on Hideo Nakata's 1998 Japanese smash Ringu (itself based on Koji Suzuki's equally popular novel), this Americanized version hews closely to its source material for...read the complete Ring, The (2002) review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)

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Moose Hole (Joseph Kastner)

If you do decide to watch The Ring , you are in for a real cinematic treat but don�t have too high expectations as the ending will leave you disappointed....read the complete Ring, The (2002) review at Moose Hole (Joseph Kastner)

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d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)

I walked into The Ring, yet another recent foreign hit that has been absorbed, remade and spit back out by Hollywood, glad that I did not have the bias of seeing the acclaimed original (the Japanese film Ringu) of this new production, a mindset...read the complete Ring, The (2002) review at d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)

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Mark R. Leeper

It is said that in technology that the new ideas come from the United States, but that Japan is more clever about marketing them. An example is the VCR, which was developed in the United States. The Japanese, however, took over the market and made it...read the complete Ring, The (2002) review at Mark R. Leeper

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