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The Ring

1927
Drama
1h 29m
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Rated 17 Jul 2009
80
68th
Even here, decades before he became a legend, Hitchcock was serving notice that he was one of the most inventive directors working. This has more than a few clever visual ideas that you never saw in other silent movies
Rated 25 Aug 2010
71
29th
If this weren't a Hitchcock film no one would care much. It's still a decent film with a reasonably good love triangle and some occasional visual flair, but that's about it.
Rated 24 Dec 2010
55
21st
54.750
Rated 01 Jan 2012
50
34th
Typical love-triangle fare, and the boxing match at the end was laughable.
Rated 26 Jan 2012
50
23rd
When Hitchcock is playing with the images in this silent film of his, such as using superimpositions, it is a sight to behold. The moment the plot takes over however everything grinds to a halt. I have a lot of Hitchcock films to see, but while Vertigo and Psycho could combine these two aspects comfortably, this feels like it was practice for him.
Rated 19 Jun 2013
75
44th
The Ring is not a great film. It's entertaining enough, and Hitchcock shows an early predilection toward detail, but his technical and storytelling chops are far from perfected.
Rated 10 Oct 2013
81
68th
81.000
Rated 05 Sep 2017
38
57th
Another Hitchcock silent (and a self-written one, at that). As with most of them, individual moments impress more than the picture overall. Ultimately, it's a very conventional genre film that telegraphs its plot from the get-go, and takes its sweet time acting out what you know is coming. However, an abundance of clever transitions, superimpositions, and such again show Hitchcock's early tendency to make up in visual cleverness for dullness elsewhere.
Rated 19 Jul 2018
4
16th
While it has some great classic Hitchcock storytelling and cinematography, nothing about it really wowed me. It's a solid crowd-pleasing drama from an era that still just hasn't grabbed me enough to get excited about something like this. If the silent era works for you though, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Rated 10 Aug 2018
40
19th
A few good shots but mostly boring.
Rated 28 Feb 2019
82
14th
81.50
Rated 29 Jul 2023
70
42nd
This is Hitchcock's first (and only) film based on a screenplay he wrote ... or at least co-wrote. A sports-based romantic melodrama is not really what we think of as a Hitchcock film, and there's nothing all that special about the story, but there's a lot of visual invention in this film and he manages to pull off a handful of really stunning sequences. Hunter turns in an amusingly laid back performance.

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