Review: This is one of my personal favorites for several reasons. While it's a pretty classic example of an early-2010s vampire film, it has an overarching existential vibe that many films lack and a surprising amount of emotional depth. I've seen lots of critics call this movies essentially "Neil Jordan's Interview with the Vampire" and that's a fairly apt description of it. The main plot revolves around Eleanor (played by the gorgeous Saoirse Ronan, totally not biased here) recounting her vampire past first to strangers, and then an eventual love interest, a young Caleb Landry Jones. There's multiple jumps between the historical past and present, and it weaves together a suprisingly dark, sombre, atmosphere, with a great musical score and overall prescence. It's very cute when it needs to, dreaful when required, deals a lot with grief, trauma, and the consequences of a broken past, while simaltaneously being feminist critique of male power in some ways. In short, I love this movie. It breaks existing vampire movie sterotypes in the best ways, and rivals Let The Right One In to become one of my favorite vampire movies of all time, which is a very hard bar to clear.

Review Score: 9.5 /10