This film truly captures something enduring about what it's like to be a kid, and it continues to speak to that child in all of us.

| Dec 14, 2023

Without being the least bit schmaltzy or cloying, Home Alone manages to impart the holiday spirit. Its saving grace is an unexpected vein of irreverent humor that verges on the black.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 30, 2023

This is going to be a big hit with the kids. Word will get out in the schoolyard that Home Alone is really funny. Just don’t let the kids near the iron after they’ve seen it.

| Nov 30, 2023

Home Alone will send most moviegoers home with the warm glow of a story well told.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 29, 2023

Hughes wrote and produced Home Alone, leaving hapless Chris Columbus to direct this boorish, ham-fisted, sloppy screen comedy.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 29, 2023

Culkin is the perfect tufted tow-headed tyke; the human equivalent of the Roadrunner, his face twisting and eyes brightening with every revelation and idea. Pesci and Stern, accordingly, are cast as Wiley Coyotes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 29, 2023

Home Alone is a cheerful, happy-minded comedy with clever casting and the kind of repetitious slapstick action to thrill the kids.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 29, 2023

Home Alone isn't high art, but it's a swell gift to movie-going families.

| Nov 29, 2023

Once Culkin is left to hos own devices, the film takes off. The last 45 minutes are achingly funny -- the perfect pre-Christmas present. Enjoy the laughs and don't leave anyone home alone. This is a picture the whole family can ejoy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 29, 2023

For a dumb movie, Home Alone gets pretty smart pretty fast... just like little Kevin.

| Nov 29, 2023

The exception to the predictability is Kevin's plotted revenge against two extremely goofy criminals, played by the brilliant Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 29, 2023

The film bombards us with gag and gimmicks. It's fun escapism, but not emotionally engaging.

| Nov 29, 2023

Using split-second editing, playfully choreographed violence and exaggerated responses such as the bug-eyed double take, director Chris Columbus has created a live action comedy in the style of a Warner Bros cartoon.

| Nov 29, 2023

Home Alone works -- it's funny, stupid, affably sentimental, and on occasion, even inspired.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 29, 2023

You may not buy the contrived plot, but this giddy, warm-hearted comedy will have both children and grownups giggling in the aisles.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 29, 2023

The movie is quite enjoyable as long as it explores the fantasy of a neglected little boy having an entire house of his own to explore and play in, and it still manages to be fun when he exhibits superhuman ingenuity and resourcefulness.

| Nov 29, 2023

Kevin learns some lessons, too. Families aren't bad after all. Families are nice. Being Home Alone isn't much fun. He's right.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2023

Writer/producer Hughes and director Chris Columbus have assembled a likeable cast led by Macaulay Culkin who plays Kevin and can make an impressive screaming face.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 29, 2023

In the spirit of the coming season, you forgive this movie and cheerfully accept its gifts -- a few big laughs, several unforced chuckles, and a touching moment or two.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 29, 2023

Home Alone is a lot like most Christmas gifts -- nicely packaged and fun to open, but not very useful or tasteful.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 29, 2023