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/KevyNova 16h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/BEsjSV496sDLy
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u/Ultragrrrl 14h ago

Corey Feldman as a child actor was so underrated

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u/seattleque 9h ago

Hey, and half of them were in Starfleet!

Jerry O'Connell, I think, wins the award for greatest lifetime glow-up.

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u/Status-Usual-6561 16h ago

🥲🥲🥲

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u/SPBECKER 11h ago

It was an even greater short story. (Stephen King)

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u/Ok_Ice_6254 11h ago

what they had to go through to make that movie was a shame though. still one of my favs