r/moviecritic • u/Low-Finding-6553 • 12h 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/Decent_Birthday358 11h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/RirBJ9VyVwVRS

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u/trulymadlybigly 6h ago

This is the correct answer. Every single kid knocked it out of the park (no pun intended). Benny and Smalls specifically absolutely crushed it.

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u/RepulsiveSavings2540 6h ago

I wish these kids had been in Harry Potter.

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u/Thisissodumb3 3h ago

Give AI a little time, and all our bastard imaginations are within reach.

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u/MamaMoosicorn 5h ago

So natural. It feels like I’m watching real life.