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Generally favorable reviews- based on 47 Ratings

  • Starring: Daniel Stern, Joe Pesci, Macaulay Culkin
  • Summary: Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister has become the man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them! (20th Century Fox Corp.) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Reviewed by:Cartyn James
    80
    Kevin has the potential to be the mawkish child or the obnoxious little adult so common on screen, but he is neither. Played with great glee by Macaulay Culkin, he is a totally endearing, up-to-the-minute little boy.
  2. Reviewed by:Jeanne Cooper
    80
    This holiday contender from John Hughes is too crass, too loud and too violent to be added blithely to Christmas viewing traditions. But it is funny.
  3. Reviewed by:Ian Nathan
    60
    So it may not be Citizen Kane, but it is a hilarious comedy (although not a very believable one - there can be no eight-year-olds this ingenious) that kids will love and adults won't mind sitting through either.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Negative: 3 out of 11
  1. With "Home Alone", director Chris Columbus gives a great Christmas entertainment as well as funny, pure performances.
  2. Honnêtement, j'en attendais un peu trop de cette comédie (surtout qu'elle est assez connue). Tel que Maman, je m'occupe des méchants, je voulais absolument voir ce gamin ce défendre contre des cambrioleurs en usant de moyens et de pièges faits à la va-vite. Que c'est jouissif de voir des pros tomber dans des pièges aussi ridicules! Mais hélas, cela ne concerne que le quart d'heure final du film. Pendant tout le reste, j'ai dû supporter la naïveté et les états d'âme du jeune garçon, sans pour autant que cela soit à mourir de rire. Pour certains, c'est mignon, moi j'ai trouvé ça plutôt gonflant. Même question acteurs, personne ne semble réellement s'amuser (hormis Joe Pesci et encore, il n'est pas à son meilleur). A voir juste comme une distrayante comédie de Noël. Expand
  3. This was not a fine movie. I didn't Liked everything in it; the direction, the script, the characters, the visual side of the movie... Everything wasn't fine. I didn't like it. Expand

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