Or, Macaulay Culkin Meets The Swarm.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2025

A film that renders a beautiful adolescent friendship wonderfully played by Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky, in one of the great child performances, while also not fumbling away confronting genuine lessons about grief and loss for young people.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 6, 2024

My Girl is an exercise in mawkish sentiment, an exploitation picture for the whole family.

| Oct 11, 2019

When I watched My Girl as a kid, I spent 80% of the movie having Schwinn Bicycle and mood ring envy. Now, I'm also able to appreciate [the] dialogue...

| Nov 3, 2018

My Girl has some sweet, funny moments (the cast is uniformly appealing), yet it unfolds in a landscape of paralyzing, pop-psych banality.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

Coming of age tale tackles death; for older kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2011

It’s a rough summer for an 11-year-old, but director Howard Zieff paints it in the manner of a watercolor of a youthful idyll.

| Mar 26, 2009

Chlumsky gives a lively performance, which is more than can be said for Culkin.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2003

Dreadful coming of age movie about kids and death. Kudos for the effort, but it's just depressing.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 18, 2003

The ultimate tearjerker. Proof positive that Mac still has what it takes for a comeback!

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 11, 2003

Mr. Aykroyd, looking rotund and rather hangdog, makes a very unlikely romantic lead. Ms. Curtis tries gamely but unconvincingly to appear smitten.

| May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 24, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2002

Syrupy sweet, but just this side of watchable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2002

The beauty in this film is in its directness. There are some obligatory scenes. But there are also some very original and touching ones. This is a movie that has its heart in the right place.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A wonderful surprise, a delightful comedy for its first three-quarters, then a very touching, somewhat wrenching tragedy, albeit with an optimistic outcome.

| Jan 1, 2000