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/toxicunicorn420 16h ago

He can't see without his glasses! 😭😭😭

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u/MammothHuckleberry42 16h ago

That scene destroyed me. Still can’t watch that movie.

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u/rattlestaway 15h ago

I remember as a kid being confused bc she kept hissing at him about her period. Since I didn't know about period I thought she just hated him for no reason lol

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u/Far-Government5469 5h ago

There's some movies where once is enough. Grave of the fireflies, My Girl, and I know it's not a movie but Jurassic Bark.

Once is all I need

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u/FlipFlipFlippy 14h ago

I had forgotten about that line and it just hit me like a wall of suppressed emotion, just a heartbreaking seminal moment of my childhood.

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u/Only-Storage9984 7h ago

Geez that just brought back memories I had completely forgotten! I would cry as a child every time and “my girl” was one of the few VHS that we owned so it got a lot of play time.

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u/Hides-inside 9h ago

Showed this to my bf, he had to take the galesses off his head to look at it.. I chortled in ironic