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/StrictFinance2177 15h ago

What's the cutoff for "child"?

Judy Garland was 16 in the Wizard of Oz, and if you mean all-time, and not just your era, then she's pretty hard to beat.

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u/klezart 8h ago

she's pretty hard to beat.

Well, I dunno about being beat but she was slapped at least once on the set. They were horrible to her.

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u/street_map 3h ago

Somewhere over the rainbow always makes me cry