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Home Alone (25 Greatest Christmas Films)

“The Hughes canon increases in stature with each passing year and will long outlive the likes of today’s Judd Apatows because the Midwestern-raised Hughes was a genius at crafting the simplest of plots, keeping them moving, and dropping into them sympathetic and memorable characters we relate to. Characters who themselves …were frequently the products — not of lofty Manhattan or some other trendy city – but Midwestern small towns and suburbs populated with ice rinks and churches and beautiful homes filled with good and decent people…”