Let the Right One In. 

I haven't seen much Swedish filmography, but what I HAVE seen, I liked. "Let the Right One In" is... not an exception, but it's close. Overall, I did enjoy it, but it's hard for me to say that when all I really remember from the film are the moments when Eli showed evidence of her being a vampire; beyond that, I found it difficult to focus my attention on what was happening, especially when it came to Oskar. I've learned that I tend to judge a movie based on how it handles its character development (normally that of the main character), and I just thought that Oskar's was agonizingly slow, and when he finally did develop, it was nearly a complete 180 (approx. 167) from "take it like a bitch" to "f*ck all of y'all!". I realize that the purpose of the scene, in which the bully-kid threatens to push Oskar into the freezing water, was to show what finally pushed Oskar past the limit of his patience, but nothing had really happened to push him. Previously in the film, our white-blonde protagonist had been repeatedly beat with a stick, and eventually had his face cut by it, but then he was pushed to retaliate after an idle threat? I just wasn't feeling it. One quality of the movie I really did enjoy, however, was the completely-unrelated-to-my-last-point handling of the lighting and color direction. The "Sin-City"-reminiscent use of crimson blood on white snow, cloth, walls, etc. was very tastefully used and never screamed in your face with bright, red saturation. It really added to the overall dark and tense tone that was present throughout the movie; hell, a little more of it and it'd be almost responsible for the darkness and tensity. Well, that and the sound design. As a quick final note, the use of silence in various scenes was just brilliant.

 --William Avery