Isolating and bare, Let the Right One In combines appropriate uses of setting and story to tell an affecting drama rich in pathos.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2023

Chilling in more ways than one, this Swedish import uses its frozen environment to great advantage.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 15, 2023

With uncompromising beauty and tenderness, director Tomas Alfredson lets his characters find resilience and strength in one another as they navigate a cruel and unwelcoming world.

| Oct 27, 2022

It shares with Kieslowski’s "Decalogue" a certain gritty, working-class beauty; disruptive humanity in the dead center of a stark white landscape.

| Original Score: A | Sep 21, 2022

A near perfect horror film that captures the horrors of bullying and coming of age in a chilly, unflinching fashion. Is this a classic queer romance or a morally conflicted tragedy? The answer may just be yes.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 25, 2022

Gorgeous, haunting and poignant, Let the Right One ranks among the best vampire films.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2022

The film is peculiar in all the ways it should be, and it's one that is exquisitely imagined. By the time the credits roll, Let the Right One In really sinks its fangs in, and you are happy it did.

| Nov 12, 2021

My favorite Swedish import.

| Dec 18, 2020

Production values are pretty good: everything looks believably "eighties", the snowscapes of Sweden look mighty fine and everything is underscored by a suitably moody soundtrack.

| Jan 23, 2020

Beautifully made and exquisitely realised by all involved, this is a remarkable movie that redefines horror film-making and deserves to reach as wide an audience as possible.

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

This is not your typical blood-and-guts horror film...the heart of Let the Right One In is the friendship between Oskar and Eli. Despite Eli's vampirism, this relationship feels realistic.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 2, 2019

A beautiful, enchanting gothic fable that is at once strangely charming and unabashedly macabre.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

A tale of how damaged people forge connections, how they learn to survive and, ultimately, where they find genuine love.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 1, 2019

At Oskar's age, every girl, vampire or not, knew something we didn't. And it was terrifying. Somehow, Let the Right One In pulls this off without copping out on creating a genuinely scary horror movie.

| Oct 17, 2018

I'm not exaggerating when I say that it's probably the best vampire movie in the last 75 years... Let the Right One In takes its sting from the fact that the one you let in your door may, in the long run, not be so right after all.

| May 17, 2018

Who better to sympathize with during the lonely alienation common to adolescence than the equally forlorn existence of a teenage vampire?

| Nov 16, 2017

Every drop of blood is well-earned, and often well deserved.

| Aug 22, 2017

Let the Right One In will please horror fans who revel in the gritty, messy aspects of vampire love inside a solid screenplay.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 17, 2017

Let the Right One In, perhaps more subtly than its predecessors in the sub-genre, perfectly captures the nature of love as a delicate and dangerous balancing act.

| Jul 22, 2017

A strange, stunning and surprisingly sweet Swedish film about childhood friendship and first love.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 6, 2015