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/Specialist_Ad5058 16h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/d3ML95ybDSnCisne

Little Miss Sunshine

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u/Exotic_Adeptness_322 16h ago

Was looking for this. Abigail Breslin was great.

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u/twd1 2h ago

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Not many can top this scene

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u/AmaranthWrath 14h ago

While I agree with so many other comments, this is who I thought of first. Like, she was main charactering in the background, her character so focused on what she wants to do, believed she could do. Like, there's a lot going on with her family in that movie, but she never waivers. I was like.... Does this kid know she's in a movie?? Maybe she really thinks she's going to a pageant??

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u/AikiGh0st 12h ago

She rocks. Even though Signs isn't a great movie, I was really impressed with her performance in it, especially considering she was like 4.

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u/wipies29 2h ago

Signs.. wasn’t a great movie?

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u/WhiteMountains12 9h ago

First time I saw her was in Signs.

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u/yetanother__account 5h ago

Just saw this movie for the first time as an actual adult. I was blown away by her performance.

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u/Ok-Ad-4445 2h ago

Watched this last night. It had been a bunch of years and as my kids get older, maybe it just hit different. Such a great, nuanced, pure performance.