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In love and on the lam – David Lynch-style.

Home Alone is the apex, the pinnacle, the culmination of every bad bit Hughes has ever written or directed. It overflows with primitive, disastrously unfunny sight gags and neo-hateful familial humor.

Burton’s combination of fantastic and real imagery adds to this story’s dreamy but satiric edge. Depp, as the the fragile but irresistibly fabulous title character, is “shear” delight.