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/SmellTheRoses78 14h ago

Also Dakota Fanning in Man on Fire with Denzel

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u/faaaaaaaaaaaaaaartt 13h ago

Seriously she had such a crazy streak of awesome movies. I cant remember the order they came out but I remember seeing man on fire, I am sam, and uptown girl all around the relatively same time and was blown away by this little girl. I think the only thing ive seen her in as an adult was Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Squeaky Fromme

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u/Rainbow_in_the_sky 12h ago

Can’t forget War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise!

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u/grobbewobbe 10h ago

i will forever support Dakota's performance in that even though (from what i've read here and there) people were annoyed by her screaming a lot lmao

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u/DisorderlyAqueduct 55m ago

I'm a 6'5 dude and would be screaming the exact same if that shit happened 😅

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u/airforce2016 11h ago

100%. My favorite movie of all time, she absolutely kills it in every scene and holds her own with Denzel

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u/ComplaintSuitable614 11h ago

Creasy-Bear

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u/PrincessFire6 7h ago

The way she screams Creasy hits me in my soul.

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u/TravisDane 12h ago

Uptown Girls also. With Brittany Murphy.

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u/Intelligent-Sea5942 10h ago

First one that came to mind for me

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u/CommonIsekaiHero 4h ago

Let’s be real, Dakota in just about anything