Critical response
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| The film holds a 52% score on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on sixteen reviews. The site's consensus states: "''My Girl'' has a mostly sweet story and a pair of appealing young leads, but it's largely undone by its aggressively tearjerking ending."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1037649-my_girl|title=My Girl|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, writing: "The beauty in this film is in its directness. There are some obligatory scenes. But there are also some very original and touching ones. This is a movie that has its heart in the right place."<ref name="Ebert">{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/my-girl-1991|title=My Girl|last=Ebert|first=Roger|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|date=November 27, 1991|access-date=June 15, 2015|author-link=Roger Ebert|via=RogerEbert.com}}</ref> [[Owen Gleiberman]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' praised Chlumsky's performance in the film, but conceded that "there’s something discomforting about a movie that takes the experience of an audacious, conflicted child and reduces it to: She needs to Confront Her Feelings. ''My Girl'' has some sweet, funny moments (the cast is uniformly appealing), yet it unfolds in a landscape of paralyzing, pop-psych banality."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|title=My Girl|author=Gleiberman, Owen|date=December 6, 1991|access-date=August 29, 2018|url=https://ew.com/article/1991/12/06/my-girl/|author-link=Owen Gleiberman}}</ref> | The film holds a 52% score on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on twenty-one reviews. The site's consensus states: "''My Girl'' has a mostly sweet story and a pair of appealing young leads, but it's largely undone by its aggressively tearjerking ending."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1037649-my_girl|title=My Girl|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, writing: "The beauty in this film is in its directness. There are some obligatory scenes. But there are also some very original and touching ones. This is a movie that has its heart in the right place."<ref name="Ebert">{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/my-girl-1991|title=My Girl|last=Ebert|first=Roger|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|date=November 27, 1991|access-date=June 15, 2015|author-link=Roger Ebert|via=RogerEbert.com}}</ref> [[Owen Gleiberman]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' praised Chlumsky's performance in the film, but conceded that "there’s something discomforting about a movie that takes the experience of an audacious, conflicted child and reduces it to: She needs to Confront Her Feelings. ''My Girl'' has some sweet, funny moments (the cast is uniformly appealing), yet it unfolds in a landscape of paralyzing, pop-psych banality."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|title=My Girl|author=Gleiberman, Owen|date=December 6, 1991|access-date=August 29, 2018|url=https://ew.com/article/1991/12/06/my-girl/|author-link=Owen Gleiberman}}</ref> |
| Film critic [[Caryn James]] cited the film as being part of a "trend toward stronger, more realistic themes in children's films", specifically its representations of death, specifically that of a young child.<ref>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=FILM VIEW; Reality Comes With the Popcorn|author=James, Caryn|date=December 1, 1991|access-date=August 30, 2018|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/01/movies/film-view-reality-comes-with-the-popcorn.html}} {{closed access}}</ref> David Kehr of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' wrote of the film: "If ''My Girl'' helps stimulate family discussions of death and loss, it will certainly have done some good in the world. But at the same time, its aesthetic interest is virtually nil... Though ''My Girl'' seeks to stir large, devastating emotions, Zieff seems afraid to touch on anything too difficult or unpleasant, lest it alienate his audience. The results are curiously gutless and unmoving, as Zieff finds himself stuck with a sentimentality without substance, a poetry without pain."<ref>{{cite web |author=Kehr |first=David |date=November 27, 1991 |title='My Girl' Wallows In Weeping Generalizations |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-11-27/features/9104170168_1_zieff-death-and-loss-stings |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2018090...ures/9104170168_1_zieff-death-and-loss-stings |archive-date=2018-09-06 |access-date=September 7, 2018 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}</ref> Peter Rainer of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' was similarly critical of the film's "syrupy" elements, concluding: "The mixture of winsomeness and deadpan frights in ''My Girl'' ought to be weirder and more interesting than it is. After all, a girl who survives a household where bodies are embalmed in the basement is the kind of plucky heroine that movies about kids need right now. Or movies about adults, for that matter."<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|author=Rainer, Peter|date=November 27, 1991|access-date=September 5, 2018|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-27/entertainment/ca-64_1_macaulay-culkin|title=MOVIE REVIEW : A Conventional 'My Girl' Brings Out the Hankies}} {{closed access}}</ref> | Film critic [[Caryn James]] cited the film as being part of a "trend toward stronger, more realistic themes in children's films", specifically its representations of death, specifically that of a young child.<ref>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=FILM VIEW; Reality Comes With the Popcorn|author=James, Caryn|date=December 1, 1991|access-date=August 30, 2018|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/01/movies/film-view-reality-comes-with-the-popcorn.html}} {{closed access}}</ref> David Kehr of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' wrote of the film: "If ''My Girl'' helps stimulate family discussions of death and loss, it will certainly have done some good in the world. But at the same time, its aesthetic interest is virtually nil... Though ''My Girl'' seeks to stir large, devastating emotions, Zieff seems afraid to touch on anything too difficult or unpleasant, lest it alienate his audience. The results are curiously gutless and unmoving, as Zieff finds himself stuck with a sentimentality without substance, a poetry without pain."<ref>{{cite web |author=Kehr |first=David |date=November 27, 1991 |title='My Girl' Wallows In Weeping Generalizations |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-11-27/features/9104170168_1_zieff-death-and-loss-stings |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2018090...ures/9104170168_1_zieff-death-and-loss-stings |archive-date=2018-09-06 |access-date=September 7, 2018 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}</ref> Peter Rainer of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' was similarly critical of the film's "syrupy" elements, concluding: "The mixture of winsomeness and deadpan frights in ''My Girl'' ought to be weirder and more interesting than it is. After all, a girl who survives a household where bodies are embalmed in the basement is the kind of plucky heroine that movies about kids need right now. Or movies about adults, for that matter."<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|author=Rainer, Peter|date=November 27, 1991|access-date=September 5, 2018|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-27/entertainment/ca-64_1_macaulay-culkin|title=MOVIE REVIEW : A Conventional 'My Girl' Brings Out the Hankies}} {{closed access}}</ref> |
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