Unlike the MPAA we do not assign
one
inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE
and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest,
depending on quantity and context.
Macaulay Culkin's family again leaves him alone, this time
in New York, and Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern run right into their diminutive nemesis.
SEX/NUDITY 0 - None.
VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - Culkin hits his brother while on stage at a Christmas
concert. This throws all the singers off balance and the accompanist falls backwards off
the stage. In the hotel, Culkin watches an old black-and-white gangster-type movie where
the guy guns down his dame because he suspects she's been sleeping around. As far as the
crooks are concerned, Culkin throws at least 5 bricks - all of which hit one of them in
the forehead. Holes in the floor cause the crooks to fall to a cement basement. One crook
gets tangled up and stapled in sensitive places - like his nose. The same crook gets
electrocuted to the point of showing his skeleton. Tools fall on the other. Culkin soaks a
rope in kerosene and, after climbing down it, sets it aflame - while the crooks are still
hanging on to it.
A CAVEAT: We've gone through several editorial changes since we
started covering films in 1992 and some of our early standards were
not as stringent as they are now. We therefore need to revisit many
older reviews, especially those written prior to 1998 or so; please
keep this in mind if you're consulting a review from that period.
While we plan to revisit and correct older reviews our resources are
limited and it is a slow, time-consuming process.
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