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Top Ten List

1. The Exorcist; 2. The Shining; 3. Orphan; 4. We Need to Talk About Kevin; 5. The Omen; 6. The Bad Seed; 7. The Good Son; 8. Brightburn; 9. Late Night with the Devil; 10. Village of the Damned

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  • The segment is introduced as a top-ten list of movies in which something is wrong with a child.
  • Village of the Damned is number ten, covering both the 1960 film and the 1995 remake.
  • Late Night with the Devil is number nine for its possessed girl on live television.
  • Brightburn is number eight and is described as an evil-Superman premise.
  • The Good Son is number seven.
  • The Bad Seed is number six and is identified as a major influence on The Good Son.
  • The Omen is number five.
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin is number four, ahead of The Omen.
  • Orphan is number three.
  • The Shining is number two, with Danny initially framed as a possible source of danger.
  • The Exorcist is number one for the observed Reagan.
  • Children of the Corn and Mikey are proposed as omissions after the ranked ten.
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Roger Ebert's review

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  • Ebert is described as hating the film with unusual intensity and questioning what Macaulay Culkin’s parents were thinking.
  • The panel argues that Ebert often let moral revulsion toward slashers, juvenile comedy, and mean-spirited films outweigh craft.
  • The episode states that Ebert awarded one-half star, described as unprecedented across roughly 440 covered movies.
  • Siskel is kept distinct: his objections focus on plot logic around Mr. Highway and the absent investigation.
  • Ebert asks who would want to see the film and calls it creepy and unpleasant because very young children enact horrible behavior.
  • Ebert proposes the alternate title Henry: Portrait of a Future Serial Killer.
  • Ebert calls the cliff climax unconvincing, contrived, meretricious, and manipulative; the panel rejects the severity of that judgment.
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What’s Aged the Best?

Macaulay Culkin breaking from his sweetheart image, both child performances, practical stunt work, the untouched dead-child bedroom, unsupervised childhood danger, and high-end direction

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  • Casting the Home Alone star as a murderous child is praised as an effective break from his public image.
  • Culkin can appear sweet or eerily malevolent, making the role credible.
  • Elijah Wood preserves some doubt that grief may be making Mark unstable.
  • Practical cliff work, wide shots, and physical stunt staging give the film tangible danger.
  • The untouched dead-child bedroom functions as a recurring wound that the story can reopen.
  • The abandoned-building vandalism and freedom to roam recall unsupervised childhood play.
  • Henry playing taps for the dead dog and adjusting his weapon after missing a cat sharpen his characterization.
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The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

The adults, especially the disengaged fathers

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  • The entire neighborhood is a collection of unguarded treehouses, wells, tracks, highways, dogs, and cliffs.
  • The adults’ behavior is the direct weak-link answer.
  • A stronger actor such as James Remar or using David Morse as Wallace is proposed.
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Did This Movie Need a Random Sports Scene?

A hockey scene for Henry

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  • Mark’s opening soccer goal uses clustered children and tight shots rather than credible play.
  • The panel jokes that the scene indicts American player development.
  • A touch-football or hockey scene could have shown Henry channeling aggression.
  • The category later asks whether Henry needed his own random sports scene.
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What’s Aged the Worst?

The score, the father’s unexplained Tokyo trip, Mark’s restrained response to a cruel taunt, David Morse’s absent parenting, and the abrupt lack of aftermath

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  • Elmer Bernstein’s score and opening titles are called generic early-1990s work despite his stature.
  • The father prioritizing an unexplained Tokyo deal immediately after his wife’s death is heavily criticized.
  • Mark’s restrained response to the maggot-food taunt is criticized.
  • David Morse’s character is called an extraordinarily uninvolved parent.
  • The ending gives Mark a coda when Susan’s loss and legal exposure need attention.
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