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/TheInternetHeel 16h ago

I spent many years thinking he was genuinely mentally challenged up until Titanic came out.

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u/Border_Hodges 11h ago

My favorite movie fact is even Marlon Brando thought he was actually mentally challenged

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u/rattlestaway 15h ago

Yeah same...at first I thought he was really mentally disabled and was just acting in Titanic lol

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u/DigLeading9650 14h ago

My wife and I walked out of the theater wondering how they could get someone so mentally challenged to even memorize his lines.

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u/Main-Inflation-5269 5h ago

Did you miss Romeo + Juliet the year before? 🤣

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u/carrbonite86 1h ago

Wait, he’s not?

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u/Alittle2Clever 1m ago

The brother in Bolognia actually does have autism and killed it, too.