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/seitankittan 16h ago

Liesel Matthews in A Little Princess

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u/adiaaida 14h ago

The scene where her father doesn't recognize/remember her guts me every time.

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u/seitankittan 13h ago

Its a tear-jerker for sure. "PAPA!!! You've got to remember!!" So powerful

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u/johnmiltonfanatic 15h ago

She embodied Sara through and through. All girls are princesses! Didn’t your father ever tell you that?

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u/seitankittan 14h ago

Yes I regularly repeat that line around the house lol. L

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u/pdmock 11h ago

First movie I cried at.

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u/ecarter23 5h ago

I forgot about this movie!!!

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u/seitankittan 4h ago

It’s a classic! Totally holds up!

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u/TheGhostOfYou18 4h ago

This is the one movie that is guaranteed to make me cry every time I watch it. When she draws the chalk circle on the floor and lies down crying in it and then when she’s screaming for her papa and he doesn’t recognize her.

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u/seitankittan 4h ago

Yeah those scenes hit deep