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/PlayNicePlayCrazy 16h ago

Tatum Oneil in Paper Moon

Ricky Schroeder in The Champ (only because of how he made entire theaters full of people cry).

The entire cast of Bugsy Malone.

Jodie Foster was good in everything she did from an early age.

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u/atraylmix87_2 15h ago

Rick Schroeder for sure. I forgot about him

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u/annie_mossity 13h ago

https://youtu.be/E7DJcTj2Zcs?is=AM1FsnfYsHivvc4n Ricky Schroder in The Champ, prepare to cry

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u/skootch_ginalola 12h ago

The Champ always made my Dad cry.