Is The Ring actually good?

The Ring sits in the 75.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 75.3% of them.

How does The Ring compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Ring lands in the 75.3% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is The Ring's score based on?

318 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Ring's score.

1998

global pct

75.3

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

The Ring

Name: The Ring
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Released: 1998

Scored from 318 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

75.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

75.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

94.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

318 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A journalist investigates a cursed videotape rumored to kill anyone who watches it exactly seven days later. After viewing the tape herself while looking into her niece's mysterious death, she races to uncover the origin of the haunting images before her own time runs out, with her young son also drawn into the curse.

Released in 1998, The Ring is a horror and mystery film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. 318 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 327 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.