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
Rory Culkin Count On Me", opposite Laura Linney, a role for which he received much praise and a Young Artist Award. Since then, Culkin has appeared in numerous films, "Signs" being the most famous, in which he starred alongside Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix. As a teenager, Rory started moving into more independent films, such as "The Chumscrubber", "Hick" and "Down in the Valley". He took a leading role in "Mean Creek", a 2004 independent film about a group of teenagers that plan to get revenge on a bully. The entire youth cast won an Independent Spirit Award for this film. Since