Home Alone Alone". On Rotten Tomatoes, "Home Alone" holds an approval rating of 63% based on 51 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads: ""Home Alone"s uneven but frequently funny premise stretched unreasonably thin is buoyed by Macaulay Culkin's cute performance and strong supporting stars." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, it has a score of 63 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. "Variety" magazine praised the film for its cast. Jeanne Cooper
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