Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7442
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Justice Smith works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Justice Smith appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Justice. Ron's Gone Wrong is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for crime, thriller, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ruben Fleischer, Kobi Libii, John Francis Daley and others, Justice Smith helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) as Marc (voice) · All the Bright Places (2020) as Finch · Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) as Simon
Career snapshot
Ranked #7442 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2018–2025
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Ron's Gone Wrong
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Ron's Gone Wrong
Most frequent director
Ruben Fleischer
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ruben Fleischer
Most common genre
Thriller
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.3
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Every Day — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Every Day.
Most productive era
2020s
10 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.43 films |
| Action | 6.91 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.51 film | 6.74 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.34 films |
| Crime | — | 6.82 films |
| Romance | 7.21 film | 7.61 film |
| Horror | — | 6.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Franklin Webb.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2021Ron's Gone Wrong
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2025Now You See Me: Now You Don't
The current state of the argument, as Charlie.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
13 of 13 films
as Simon
Directed by John Francis Daley
as Marc (voice)
Directed by Jean-Philippe Vine
as Justin / A
Directed by Michael Sucsy
as Tom
Directed by Benjamin Caron
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Finch
All the Bright Places (2020)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Finch gives Justice Smith a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Simon
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Performance score7.7
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Simon is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Marc (voice)
Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)
Performance score7.7
Ron's Gone Wrong asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marc (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Justin / A
Every Day (2018)
Performance score7.6
Every Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Justin / A is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Finch
Start here. All the Bright Places is the clearest statement of what Justice Smith does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Justice at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Every Day (2018)
Keeps the romance register of All the Bright Places but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Every Day — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Ron's Gone Wrong but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sharper (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Michael Sucsy
Director
1 film together
Notably Every Day
J. A. Bayona
Director
1 film together
Notably Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Rob Letterman
Director
1 film together
Notably Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Sophie Kargman
Director
1 film together
Notably Query
Brett Haley
Director
1 film together
Notably All the Bright Places
Michael Mohan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Voyeurs
Jean-Philippe Vine
Director
1 film together
Notably Ron's Gone Wrong
Colin Trevorrow
Director
1 film together
Notably Jurassic World Dominion
Benjamin Caron
Director
1 film together
Notably Sharper
John Francis Daley
Director
1 film together
Notably Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Kobi Libii
Director
1 film together
Notably The American Society of Magical Negroes
Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jean-Philippe Vine
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ron's Gone WrongBrett Haley
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All the Bright PlacesJohn Francis Daley
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among ThievesMichael Sucsy
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Every DayBenjamin Caron
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SharperRob Letterman
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pokémon Detective PikachuRuben Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Now You See Me: Now You Don'tColin Trevorrow
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jurassic World DominionMichael Mohan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The VoyeursJ. A. Bayona
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jurassic World: Fallen KingdomSophie Kargman
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
QueryKobi Libii
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The American Society of Magical NegroesSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Ron's Gone Wrong
as Marc (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
All the Bright Places
as Finch
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Ron's Gone Wrong
as Marc (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jurassic World Dominion
as Franklin Webb
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
All the Bright Places
as Finch
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Justice Smith has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in thriller, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
as Simon
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sharper
as Tom
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
All the Bright Places
as Finch
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
as Charlie
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Tim Goodman
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Tim Goodman
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
All the Bright Places
as Finch
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
as Charlie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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