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(1 - 48) of 48 OFCS Rating: 64% Fresh Page   1   "Anyone who gets chills from movies with giant plot holes will find plenty to shake and shiver about in 'The Ring.'"   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker C- "The movie is a dog from start to finish, with enough genre inconsistencies and plot holes to make it a textbook example of borrowing from too many divergent horror films to get anything right."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey A- "Just in time for Halloween comes Gore Verbinski’s chilling-to-the-bone suspense ride... guaranteed to have you biting your nails long after the film is done."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 3.5/4 "...a distinctive, eerie, unsettling and suggestive film on every cylinder. And for a film that contains few orthodox horror elements, it's also damn good and what it does."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 3/4 "...The Ring is far scarier than any of the recent so-called horror flicks to hit theaters..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C- "The Ring just left me cold and wet like I was out in the Seattle drizzle without rainwear."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3.5/4 "A merciless thriller, threateningly beautiful to look at and eerie to behold."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2/4 "Though not quite as anxious or callous as Stigmata, The Ring has been similarly put together with attention deficit disorder."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez 4/4 "Displaying a storytelling confidence unseen in most genre pictures, The Ring succeeds in being the most terrifying film to hit theaters since The Blair Witch Project."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C "The movie is utterly unable to tie up its admittedly creepy ideas with any degree of coherence"   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2.5/4 "...has its miscues and one can say that the twists and turns are on the borderline of predictability. Still, this Ring is worth wrapping around your little finger of twitchy suspense."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C "Something has been lost in the translation...another routine Hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "The movie seems to have been slapped together without concern about whether anything makes sense."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "the basic narrative is so convoluted and, in many ways, quite silly that the explanations end up looking strained and contrived and, ultimately, unsatisfactory"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 4/5 "Americanized remake of Japanese horror smash is a smart, disturbing and striking horror movie."   Netflix   James Rocchi 8/10 "A bona fide Saturday night chill-fest that tries to creep you out by getting under your skin."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 7/10 "Verbinski does manage to set up and deliver a decent array of spooky, eerie and yes, scary scenes and imagery."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 8/10 "Brrrrrrrrrrrr... definitely the scariest movie that I've seen so far this year."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 8/10 "...without a doubt the best horror film of 2002."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 2.5/4 "'Es una mala película pero que cumple con su cometido de espantar. Uno de esos raros casos en los que lo malo resulta ser inexplicablemente bueno.'"   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 4.5/5 "Effective, layered, genuinely and intelligently scary, and a fun ride as well. Please read review."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3.5/4 "... this film is a LOT better than you'd think it would be... especially after (DreamWorks) cranking out less-than-thrilling thrillers such as "In Dreams" and "The Haunting.""   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2/4 "These people are so passive and joyless that we’re not concerned about whether watching the tape will kill them: they all seem dead already."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest C- "gets too literal, then goes overboard into outright ludicrousness"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 8 "The Ring es una caricia de terror, un despertar de nuestros miedos más ocultos y un no querer llegar a casa y encender el televisor."   Cinenganos   Luis Martinez 3/4 "Despite my reservations, The Ring works."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 2.5/4 "The Ring has enough frights to satisfy the big crowds"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "Full of... the kind of horrors that are close enough to being a real part of the human experience that they send you into a kind of despair."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "The creepy exploration of the unknown and unexplainable is far more frightening than the violent killings that typify most horror films."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina 3.5/4 "The Ring is a mind-bending blast of eerie atmospherics and trippy visuals."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 3/5 "The overall tone is creepy and would leave many of the staunchest of movie-goers in dire need of brightly lit rooms and laughter."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 4/5 "Apesar de não superar o original, O Chamado é um suspense bem realizado que, à sua própria maneira, funciona de maneira exemplar."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca B "Turning a great movie into a pretty good one is still a step in the wrong direction... and The Ring will never be more than a pretty good movie."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C+ "A very creepy ghost story that is long on atmosphere and mercifully short on blood and gore."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten C- "The result is a film that lacks the coherence, and the subsequent horror, of the Japanese oeuvre and made me just want to get the thing over with."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 4.5/5 "A remarkably original and terrifying ghost tale."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "The American version retains much of the original but does little to justify its existence beyond the commercial considerations of relocating the setting to Seattle and filling the screen with Caucasian faces."   Cinefantastique   Steve Biodrowski 8/10 "The best horror film since 'The Sixth Sense,' 'The Changeling' and 'Psycho'...with a timely Halloween release, it's an eerie, enigmatic scare story about a supernatural videotape. Sure, it's an implausible gimmick movie - but how gullible are you? I suspe"   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 3.5/4 "The Ring is fine cinema, blessed with an unusual respect for the horror genre and its own inherent silliness."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Cloick here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf 4/10 Read review   Modamag.com   Brian Orndorf A- Read review   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1.5/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 7/10 Read review   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper Read review   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs Read review   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. Read review   In the Dark   Jonathan F. Richards Read review   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline  (1 - 48) of 48 OFCS Rating: 64% Fresh Page   1