FIVE YOUNG PERFORMERS TO WATCH

These actors prove there’s no such thing as a small role

JUDE HILL Belfast

One of the year’s biggest breakouts is 11-year-old Hill, who makes his movie debut leading the ensemble of writer-director Kenneth Branagh’s film as a young boy in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

WOODY NORMAN C’mon C’mon

Norman holds his own against Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, who stars in this tender comic drama from Mike Mills about a documentarian who learns about parenthood when he takes his nephew into his care.

MILLICENT SIMMONDS A Quiet Place Part II

Simmonds reprises her role as Regan, the deaf daughter of a hearing couple, in the sequel to writer-director John Krasinski’s sci-fi thriller about a race of aliens with superpowered hearing who invade Earth. — TYLER COATES

SYDNEY KOWALSKE Blue Bayou

Kowalske plays a girl caught up in a family crisis when her stepfather (writer-director Justin Chon), a Korean American adoptee, is threatened with deportation after an altercation with her biological father.

DANIEL RANIERI The Tender Bar

Ranieri makes his film debut in director George Clooney’s adaptation of J.R. Moehringer’s memoir about growing up with a single mother and finding a father figure in his bar-owning uncle, played by Ben Affleck.