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Adam Driver · Filmography Ranked

Best Adam Driver Films, Ranked by IQ Score

A decade of contemporary cinema's most-distinctive emerging leading man. Every Driver film, ranked.

Adam Driver's filmography since 2012 is one of the most-disciplined emerging-leading-man catalogs of the 2010s. Two Best Actor Oscar nominations. Active across auteur cinema (Baumbach, Lee, Jarmusch, Carax, Scott, Coens) while simultaneously anchoring Star Wars.

Anchor picks: Marriage Story (2019). BlacKkKlansman (2018). Paterson (2016). Inside Llewyn Davis (2013).

7 titles · ranked by IQ Score

  1. 1
    Paterson poster — IQ Score 167/200 — Masterclass tier

    Paterson

    Masterclass drama, indie

    Jim Jarmusch's 2016 film anchored by Adam Driver as a Paterson, New Jersey bus driver who writes poetry. The structural commitment to letting the week-of-routine cognitive material — same daily breakfast, same bus route,…

    167/200
  2. 2
    BlacKkKlansman poster — IQ Score 166/200 — Masterclass tier

    BlacKkKlansman

    Masterclass drama, crime, comedy

    2018 Best Picture nominee. Spike Lee's true story of a Black detective who infiltrates the KKK. High cognitive demands from the tonal shifts between comedy and horror. Exceptional educational value — the film connects 19…

    166/200
  3. 3
    Silence poster — IQ Score 163/200 — Masterclass tier

    Silence

    Masterclass drama, religious, historical

    Scorsese's 2016 Shūsaku Endō adaptation about 17th-century Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in Japan. The film he tried to make for 28 years before finally getting backing. Andrew Garfield's Rodrigues confronts the questio…

    163/200
  4. 4
    Annette poster — IQ Score 159/200 — Stimulating tier

    Annette

    Stimulating drama, musical

    Leos Carax's 2021 Sparks-songbook musical anchored by Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard. The structural commitment to letting the entire film be sung — and the canonical wooden-baby-Annette puppet — is the catalog's most-…

    159/200
  5. 5
    Inside Llewyn Davis poster — IQ Score 157/200 — Stimulating tier

    Inside Llewyn Davis

    Stimulating drama, music, indie

    The Coens' structural argument about failure as a cyclical condition rather than a transitional state. Oscar Isaac plays a folk musician in 1961 Greenwich Village whose talent is real and whose career is structurally imp…

    157/200
  6. 6
    House of Gucci poster — IQ Score 154/200 — Stimulating tier

    House of Gucci

    Stimulating drama, biographical

    Ridley Scott's 2021 biographical film about the 1995 Maurizio Gucci murder anchored by Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, and Jared Leto. Polarizing accent work; Scott's late-career commercial-prestige cinema register operates at c…

    154/200
  7. 7
    Marriage Story poster — IQ Score 145/200 — Stimulating tier

    Marriage Story

    Stimulating comedy, drama

    Follows divorce proceedings through legal, emotional, and artistic registers, demanding viewers hold competing perspectives of marriage dissolution.

    145/200

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