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

| 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

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

What Home Alone lacks in originality, it more than makes up for in good, clean family fun.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 29, 2023

If Home Alone had limited itself to the things that might possibly happen to a forgotten 8-year-old, I think I would have liked it more.

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

It's Culkin's show all the way. Though it's difficult to imagine a 10-year-old commanding the screen for 1 half hours, that's exactly what he does.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 28, 2023

The characters bear no resemblance to real people, the plot no resemblance to plausible events. But it's good, mindless fun.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 28, 2023

By emphasizing comic inventiveness rather than sentimentality, it's a perfect Christmas film for the '90s.

| Nov 28, 2023

Home Alone is a cotton-candy stick of a movie, one that kids will love but one that's too cloying for their parents.

| Nov 28, 2023

Slapstick always flirts with sadism in this film, one is left with a nasty suspicion that is may have overstepped the mark.

| Nov 28, 2023

The film is directed with infectious glee and modest malice by Chris Columbus.

| Nov 28, 2023

Home Alone is fast food American family entertainment: made to order, with relish but without finesse.

| Nov 28, 2023

Well, at least Mr, Hughes -- who wrote the screenplay and produced -- delivers a reliable product. He winds it up. We watch it go.

| Nov 28, 2023

All the stuff that comes before the break-in is not particularly funny. In Home Alone, 90 percent of the humor takes place in the last 10 minutes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 27, 2023

Home Alone takes too long to get moving and too long winding down after the action is over. Part of the problem is that the director, Chris Columbus, often fails to distinguish between hyperactivity and narrative drive.

| Nov 27, 2023