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(1 - 41) of 41 OFCS Rating: 98% Fresh Page   1   4.5/5 "It is frequently not what you see but what you hear which holds the horror."   Eye for Film   Amber Wilkinson 4.5/5 "If Twilight is the Vampire film for starry-eyed teenage girls, Let the Right One In is the Vampire film for everyone else."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke 2.5/4 "A more thoughtful approach to such a knotty set of concerns would have been welcome."   Slant Magazine   Andrew Schenker 4.5/5 "a stunningly poetic work that will appeal not just to the niche market of horror fans, but to any viewer discerning enough to appreciate the beauty of melancholy, the pain of growing up, and the irresistibility of violence."   Channel 4 Film   Anton Bitel 4.5/5 "With its bursts of horrific violence and stark, matter of fact mannerism, Let the Right One In instantly becomes one of the few outright foreign fright film classics."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron "Quiet, touching and poetic are not normally terms associated with vampire films, but there are no better words to describe Lat den rätte komma in (Let the Right One in) from director Tomas Alfredson."   european-films.net   Boyd van Hoeij A "Right One is a marvel: an ingenious genre film that manages to terrify and endear in the same instant, deftly erecting one of the most persuasive, haunting film experiences of the year."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf "...effectively dark-minded Swedish chiller."   Film Journal International   Chris Barsanti 4/5 "With HBO's eccentric True Blood series and Twilight galvanizing vampiric bloodlust, Let the Right One In might not be invited to the party, but it belongs in the hall of fame."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin 8/10 "It is certainly one of the most accomplished and intriguing vampire films released in quite some time."   DVDTown.com   Christopher Long B+ "Novelist/screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist's script is a study in connecting the inner lives of emotionally bound characters to a suspenseful vampire plot in a cold foreign setting."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "As Oskar and Eli gaze into the seeming mirrors of one another's faces, their mouths smeared with the victim's blood, their eyes soften and they look, at last, close, their fates entwined in ways they can't anticipate."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3.5/4 "...a thoroughly original and consistently engaging piece of work..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair A- "A bloody good offbeat relationship vampire film."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "Not the be-all-end-all groundbreaker some are labeling it as, but it does put a new, sweet spin on a subgenre long in need of some freshening up."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman A- "How can a movie be so tender, poignant, horrific, and gory all at once?"   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B+ "A moodily effective thriller that shows that there's life in the undead yet."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek B+ "From the country that didn't sign up with the Coalition of the Willing...the remake should be awful."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 3/4 "Its portrayal of the relationship between two improbably alike pre-teens is more believable than what we see in many 'realistic' dramas."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "Think Twilight, but directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring twelve-year-olds instead of teens then you'll have a good idea what to expect of this Swedish vampire movie . . ."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley 3/5 "Let the Right One In wasn't my favorite movie at Tribeca 2008, but it's definitely the one that's stuck with me"   Jaman   Jay Antani 8/10 "Like a horror romance Kieslowski might have made, as it explores both a tender, tentative relationship -- a connection in an otherwise dark world -- and relative morality."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 5/5 "click for full review"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 3.0/4.0 "Forget... Twilight... this story far more likely illustrates what would happen when a seemingly under-aged vampire moves in next door (hint: no one's going to the prom)."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson A "The film plays like a lullaby by the Brothers Grimm."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "A chilling coming-of-age story in which a miserable adolescent strikes up a friendship with a vampire girl who appears to be own his age but has, she says, been 12 "for a very long time.""   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh 7/10 "LET THE RIGHT ONE IN is not a piece of throwaway fluff. It is a dark film of pain, most not of a supernatural origin."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 4/4 "Excellent storytelling and a handful of very good shots add up to one of the year's best"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "You've never seen a vampire movie like this before -- that I can promise you. There hasn't been one like this before."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson B+ "[Melds] genres with a haunting poignancy that's mildly undercut by a script that, during its last act, bounces around like a jeep on a dirt road."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "Acaba funcionando também como uma contundente alegoria sobre a imprevisibilidade da natureza humana, que traz, em sua imensa diversidade, monstros infinitamente piores do que aqueles com longos caninos."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 5/5 "Bloody and beautiful in equal measure, this is a horror film that is so good that I almost don't want to describe it as such for fear of putting off some viewers who wouldn't dream of spending good money to see such a thing."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4.5/5 "This is bold, haunting filmmaking that pulls us all the way in."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline A- "It quietly pushes the envelope of what stories like this are supposed to be: a feat more shocking than a thousand Hollywood boogeymen."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "The film is done with style. Mostly through images."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 5/5 "Please be sure to keep an eyeball out for this one, horror fans. Let the Right One In is very smart, very sweet, very sick, and very special indeed."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg B+ "Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire film is a young love horror piece full of chilly moods and twisted allegiances..."   Seanax.com   Sean Axmaker "It skillfully combines an art house sensibility with the horror genre and makes the combination absolutely seamless."   Cinefantastique   Steve Biodrowski 10/10 "A haunting, suspenseful coming-of-age tale, giving a tender, unique twist to the bloodsucking genre that dates back to the classic 1922 'Nosferatu.'"   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 9/10 "An awfully wonderful vampire story, thanks largely to pushing itself so far beyond the limits that "vampire story" usually implies."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 4/4 "The perfect amalgam of classic horror archetypes and coming of age stories."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell  (1 - 41) of 41 OFCS Rating: 98% Fresh Page   1