American revamping and retitling of the overpraised Swedish horror show, Let the Right One In, a tender, tentative, prepubescent love story between a bullied schoolboy and the next-door vampire (“twelve, more or less”), snail-paced, whisper-soft, like the original. Matt Reeves, dropping the pardonably sloppy digital camcorder of Cloverfield, directing this one “straight,” does a lot of fooling around with the focus in order to feel creative, but he mostly follows the inherited blueprint all the way into boredom. Chloë Grace Moretz, the delightful Kick-Ass girl, is thoroughly grounded, for all her flying ability, in a characterization bent on converting her into a junior Kristen Stewart. With Kodi Smit-McPhee, Richard Jenkins, and Elias Koteas. (2010) — Duncan Shepherd
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