Home Alone is arguably the quintessential modern day holiday film that could only come from the exceptionally gifted mind of the late writer/director/producer, John Hughes. In my opinion, this film hasn’t “aged” at all and is still artistically and cinematically relevant even today.
Macaulay Culkin is brilliant as Kevin McCallister, the scared yet empowered young kid who takes on the “Wet Bandits”. Those bandits are played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern who add so much to the film with their amazing performance. I can’t imagine them being played by anyone else, they are just perfect within their roles – just ingenious, effective, hilarious, and timeless.