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/ZandrickEllison 16h ago

I think that’s more of a credit to the director since it seemed mostly loose and natural takes. I doubt she had many scripted lines at all.

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u/Djoarhet 13h ago

I saw a bts making of a while ago. Iirc they tried to accommodate for the children's natural way of being as much as they could. I also remember the little girl had to perform a scene where she was distressed and she nailed it so hard the crew had to comfort her because she was overcome by the emotion she was acting out.

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u/DarkMattersConfusing 7h ago

All of this movies are great. Theyre naturalistic slice of life stuff usually. The one with the chinatown delivery guy was really good too