<\/p>\n
5. Home Alone<\/strong> Me neither.<\/p>\n But Home Alone successfully gets me over that hurdle, to the point where I can almost forget about how much I don’t like Mr Culkin in this role and, instead, get to feel comfortable with how\u00a0much I enjoy the film.<\/p>\n I’ll start with the family rushing around so much that they manage to leave one of their children at home.<\/p>\n This is brilliant.<\/p>\n Which of us haven’t wanted, secretly, to leave someone at home?<\/p>\n Aha, I see you have!<\/p>\n Me too.<\/p>\n Home Alone mines a rich, slightly dark vein of slapstick, and yet it doesn’t stray too readily in to the territory of gloop.<\/p>\n Perhaps that’s because of my dislike for Macauly Culkin?<\/p>\n Whatever.<\/p>\n The character Kevin isn’t a sociopath, as some have said.<\/p>\n He’s just a childish version of what I’d get up to, if I had the house to myseslf.<\/p>\n And then the burglars enter the story.<\/p>\n
\nNot a big fan of Macauly Culkin’s work?<\/p>\n