Let the Right One In Reviewed

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In my minimal research, it looked like a lot of people really, really liked Let the Right One In. I thought it was pretty good; probably a B+ by my usual standards. It had a literary feel to it, which I appreciated, but it also felt a little loose in a sense that may work wonderfully in the novel but which doesn’t play quite so well in movie form. Still, a good take on vampires, and it did one of the things I like best in books and movies: while playing perfectly well as a genre piece, it also dove with equal skill into real-life drama.

That’s no mean feat, and I may be underrating it just a bit. Big ups to the director, though. Hope more of his work makes its way stateside in the future.