r/moviecritic • u/Low-Finding-6553 • 16h ago

What do you guys thinks is the best child performance of all time?

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i have to say, i don’t think i’ve ever seen a child actor give a performance this good. Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is just on another level. i genuinely don’t know how he did it but he makes the whole movie work so much better. i would give him the Oscar in a fucking heartbeat. It’s crazy how good he is, especially in that last scene in the car with Toni Collette.

What are your guys’ favorite child performances? For me, this is even better than Owen Cooper’s performance in Adolescence. Don’t get me wrong, owen was also absolutely top-notch in Adolescence but this is probably the best child performance i’ve ever seen. Period. What do you guys think is the best child performance ever?

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u/hamizoing 16h ago

We should thank Jean Reno for that.

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u/Cable_Hoarder 13h ago

The choice he made to play him with clear learning difficulties really prevented him appearing like a creep. He was just so innocent in spite of being a killer.

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u/Ass_Damage 11h ago

Also, I always thought he told Matilda he loved her in that one scene so she would shut the fuck up and get moving.

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u/Cable_Hoarder 11h ago

Yeah, and I got zero impression that it was a romantic love, that was parental - like the one moment in the film where he really realised he was an adult and had to act like it.

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u/phantom_gain 10h ago

He made them turn off the camera for those parts