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"&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;I thought for sure that any Hollywood remake of Tomas Alfredson&amp;apos;s artful Swedish vampire film, &lt;em&gt;Let the Right One In&lt;/em&gt;, would be a crass desecration. Well, color me blushing. Director Matt Reeves (&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/cloverfield-20080118\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cloverfield&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) proves expert at tracing Alfredson&amp;apos;s footsteps, creating a mood of chilling terror even while moving the setting from Stockholm to 1980s New Mexico with Reagan raising fears about the Evil Empire. Better yet, Reeves plugs in a live wire to play Abby, the girl vampire who&amp;apos;s been 12 for, well, a very long time. That would be Chlo&amp;#xEB; Grace Moretz, an acting dynamo (see &lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/kick-ass-20100415\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kick-Ass&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) whose mesmerizing performance goes deep. Abby fascinates her new neighbor, Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee of &lt;em&gt;The Road&lt;/em&gt;), a boy victimized at school by bullies. He wants to be fearless like Abby, whose only parental figure is a guardian, played by the great Richard Jenkins. For the sake of newbies to this story, I&amp;apos;ll say no more, except there will be blood and surprising tenderness. Moretz and Smit-McPhee will stay with you, especially in a delicate scene where he asks her to be his girl. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m not a girl &amp;#x2014; I&amp;apos;m nothing,&amp;quot; she says. Prepare to be wowed. It&amp;apos;s a spellbinder.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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