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
Home Alone plot similarities to "Home Alone". "3615 code Père Noël" director René Manzor threatened the makers of "Home Alone" with legal action on the grounds of plagiarism, alleging that "Home Alone" was a remake of his film. "3615 code Père Noël" was not released in the United States during its original theatrical run in January 1990 and didn't become widely available there until 2018. The film was followed by a commercially successful sequel in 1992, "", which brings back the first film's cast. The film within a film, "Angels with Filthy Souls", had a sequel in "Home Alone 2", "Angels with