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

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

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

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

But sometimes a reviewer just has to blink back the tears that have been mechanically jerked from his eyes and think up more fitting titles for a movie like "My Girl." Call it "The Manipulator II." Or maybe "Dying Even Younger."

| Jan 1, 2000

My Girl is a wildly uneven little movie, at times pleasingly sweet, at others perplexingly miscalculated. It's a modest, likable piece of work, with a handful of charming, low-key performances, particularly from newcomer Anna Chlumsky...

| Jan 1, 2000

Screenwriter Laurice Elehwany attempts to shape this movie from the perspective of Veda, but the weak first-person narrative ultimately founders, leaving My Girl without a discernible voice.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000