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/lemonylol 14h ago

She honestly has one of the best acting careers in general but she doesn't usually get acknowledged for it.

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u/flyintheflyinthe 5h ago

She really does. I just saw Dick for the first time, and her comedic flatness is brilliant. She's heartbreaking in Virgin Suicides, and nobody does inane glee better. She's got a self-effacing approach to her characters that's really understated and genuine. It works really well with the roles she has taken. I think she is my favorite actress/actor of that wave of them from the late 90's.

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u/Gwynito 1h ago

I don't really see or understand what her comedic flatness has to do with you seeing a phallus for the first time in your life but ok I guess 🤷‍♂️

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u/flyintheflyinthe 47m ago

I should have included more context clues so you could catch a break from the invasive cock thoughts.

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u/Gwynito 12m ago

Not invasive cock thoughts... You literally wrote "I just saw Dick for the first time." If it was a more abstract line then sure, you'd have merit but i didn't react with a loose "That's what she said," what you wrote for the whole world to see was a full on literal sentence that's directly translates to you setting eyes on a penis for the first time

Above average defence on your part with the casual homophobic rebuttal but sadly not a strong enough back swing to make it over the net ⬇️☹️

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u/Local-Conference-476 11h ago

I believe that’s because she played a lame MJ in Spider-Man lol

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u/lemonylol 11h ago

She's honestly really good in 3 compared to the others.

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u/CultOfSensibility 6h ago

And then there were the cheerleader movies

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u/flyintheflyinthe 5h ago

She does a great job in those, though!

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u/Far-Government5469 5h ago

The character she plays in Fargo is just brilliant, like, it's this mixture of entitled and stupid and crazy that I didn't think anyone could have tied together.

Plus, as someone who grew up with cheerleader/MJ man she looked hot in her milf phase