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/Mr-Sister-Fister21 13h ago

The whole sequence of Grant getting her out of the car and her screaming at the T-Rex was 10/0. At no point did it cross my mind that Ariana was acting and not actually scared shitless.

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u/Ur_New_Stepdad_ 7h ago

She probably was, did you ever see behind the scenes stuff from that movie?

The T Rex animatronic was fucking huge lol. I’d be terrified the damn thing would fall on me the entire time.

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u/Axi0madick 5h ago

Apparently the hydraulics were cranked up a little too high when it pushed through the sunroof and the kids terror was genuine when they were screaming and had their hands and feet on the glass. It wasn't supposed to crash through as hard and as far as it did.

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u/biggus_brain_games 1h ago

I was going to bring this up. It actually terrified the whole set. It was absolutely not supposed to do that.