Let Me In works through its entirety to showcase both a balance in love and sacrifice.

| Mar 4, 2024

Griping about the differences between the two will become a losing battle for anyone who favors Let Me In, if only because the original has the advantage of being The Original. But these are both well-crafted horror films.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2023

Let me in allows us to enter a world beyond the grave, with protector and the protected in a morbid skin and bones pact. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 20, 2022

It's even better if viewers haven't seen the original.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 29, 2020

The film will undoubtedly prove satisfying to those who profess to be hardcore fans of the sub-genre of vampire flicks.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

The actors in Let Me In are phenomenal across the board.

| Apr 6, 2020

This weekend, make sure to get yourself in to the nearest theatre for Let Me In.

| Nov 16, 2019

It is impossible not to watch the film on only a humanistic level but as an allegory of a time and era where discontent sucked the lifeblood out of families.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 29, 2019

Think Twilight. but more dark and barren, and without a trace of camp. The violence is sudden and severe, buffered by the silence of a winter night. Vampire movies do not get more tasteful.

| Aug 20, 2019

A rare remake that, for the most part, actually lives up to its source material.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2019

The performances are faultless, but clumsy CGI removes the delicateness that had us so in love with the original.

| Feb 28, 2019

When you're twelve, whether temporarily or eternally, things are different, and Let Me In depicts this with emotional accuracy and a great deal of empathy.

| Original Score: B | Feb 19, 2019

Reeves has shown himself to be one of Hollywood's brightest directorial talents... displaying with Let Me In the ability to correctly judge and manipulate subtle nuances of tone and atmosphere, in order to create the desired effect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2018

[Let Me In] won't make you jump out of your seat in fear, but it will leave you with a lasting impression of what it feels like to become so unhinged that a life of murder is better than anything else.

| May 24, 2018

Cloverfield director Matt Reeves has been charged with filling Alfredson's considerable boots, and he does a fine job of not steering too far from the original, while also putting his own stamp on the vampire tale.

Full Review | May 15, 2018

Let Me In is not so much a film in its own right as a watered-down digest for Anglophones too stupid or too lazy to read subtitles.

| Nov 27, 2017

Exploring the world of good and evil is a common theme in cinema, but few have been able to create such a fine line between the two as cleverly done in Let Me In.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 9, 2017

You won't find a much bigger fan of the original film than yours truly -- and still I was very impressed by this crafty remake.

| Aug 26, 2015

An awful lot of trouble to go to just because some people don't like reading subtitles.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2015

Matt Reeves has succeeded in presenting the story in a thoughtful, respectful manner, while still Americanizing the Swedish text.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2014