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Chloë Grace Moretz in “Let Me In.”
Lonely Boy Finds Friend in Blood-Craving Pixie
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: September 30, 2010
The title of “Let Me In” might be understood as a plea to the audience. Even if you think you’ve had enough of the vampirization of popular culture — “Twilight,” “True Blood,” “The Vampire Diaries” and so on — find room in your heart for this one. And though it teases out the usual horror movie sensations of dread and anxiety and eyes-averted disgust, this movie also makes a direct and disarming play for affection, eliciting in viewers something akin to the awkward, resilient tenderness that is its subject. More

Date: 2010-10-01 02:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] birdfigment.livejournal.com
Did you see the Swedish original? Very good. Well worth watching.

Si!

Date: 2010-10-01 11:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lsanderson.livejournal.com
I was expecting dreck from the Americanization, but it appears I may be wrong.

Re: Si!

Date: 2010-10-02 02:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] birdfigment.livejournal.com
Me too - but it's nice to be wrong.

Re: Si!

Date: 2010-10-02 03:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lsanderson.livejournal.com
Sigh, there's always that first, sad time...

;-)

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