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35 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenKey to the remake's ultimate success is the casting of the troubled young leads.Smit-McPhee and Moretz possess the soulful depth and pre-adolescent vulnerability necessary to keep it compellingly real.
- 100VarietyVariety"Cloverfield" director Matt Reeves hasn't ruined the elegant Swedish vampire story by remaking it. If anything, he's made some improvements, including the addition of a tense action-horror sequence in the middle of the film.
- 90SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirAn imaginative and largely intact retelling of this gory, troubling, uniquely sweet and uniquely dark vampire tale.
- 88Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreReeves has Americanized a very good foreign film without defanging it.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe surprise of Let Me In is that director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) hasn't just remade the Swedish cult vampire film "Let the Right One In" into a more fluid and visceral movie. He's made it more dangerous.
- 83Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallThis is how a romantic vampire flick should work.
- 80Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondBoxoffice MagazinePete HammondLet Me In eclipses "Twilight" in every way, leaving you thirsty for more of this haunting, touching and unforgettable thriller.
- 80Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfThe new Let Me In does more than merely preserve the original's mood; it actually improves on it.
- 80Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzSucceeds in portraying a life so solitary that, even when he knows what's going on, that's a deal Owen is willing to make.
- 50Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonThere's a human tragedy somewhere here-but aggrandized puppy-love romance and stylish revenge fantasy is all that lingers.