Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1169
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Adam Devine 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.
Adam Devine appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Adam. The Lego Batman Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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 science fiction, comedy, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Boots Riley, Genndy Tartakovsky, Tyler Spindel and others, Adam Devine 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.
The Lego Batman Movie (2017) as The Flash (voice) · The Intern (2015) as Jason · Magic Camp (2020) as Andy Tuckerman
Career snapshot
Ranked #1169 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2014–2026
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
The Lego Batman Movie
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
The Lego Batman Movie
Most frequent director
Boots Riley
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Boots Riley
Most common genre
Comedy
18 titles
Average runtime
1h 40m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
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
6.2
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Jexi, When We First Met, Game Over, Man! — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Jexi, When We First Met, Game Over, Man!.
Most productive era
2010s
11 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 | — | 4.61 film |
| Action | 6.42 films | 6.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.511 films | 6.17 films |
| Crime | — | 6.01 film |
| Romance | 6.61 film | 6.01 film |
| Horror | 6.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014Neighbors
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Beer Pong Guy #1.
Highest rated performance
7.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2019Jexi
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026I Love Boosters
The current state of the argument, as Christie's Boy Toy.
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.
18 of 18 films
as Andy Tuckerman
Directed by Mark Waters
as Noah Ashby
Directed by Unknown
as The Flash (voice)
Directed by Unknown
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
Andy Tuckerman
Magic Camp (2020)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Andy Tuckerman gives Adam Devine a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Phil
Jexi (2019)
Performance score7.4
Jexi asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Phil is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Noah Ashby
When We First Met (2018)
Performance score7.3
When We First Met asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Noah Ashby is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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The Flash (voice)
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
Performance score7.2
The Lego Batman Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Flash (voice) 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 Andy Tuckerman
Start here. Magic Camp is the clearest statement of what Adam Devine does — accessible, 100 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Adam 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.
The Intern (2015)
Keeps the comedy register of Magic Camp but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of The Intern but asks for a colder reading of it.
When We First Met (2018)
Same director as The Lego Batman Movie, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Jexi (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of When We First Met but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably Neighbors
Elizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together
Notably Pitch Perfect 2
Todd Strauss-Schulson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Final Girls
Nancy Meyers
Director
1 film together
Notably The Intern
Jake Szymanski
Director
1 film together
Notably Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
John Hamburg
Director
1 film together
Notably Why Him?
Kyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together
Notably Game Over, Man!
Jon Lucas
Director
1 film together
Notably Jexi
Donick Cary
Director
1 film together
Notably Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
Mark Waters
Director
1 film together
Notably Magic Camp
Dylan Redford
Director
1 film together
Notably Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
David Silverman
Director
1 film together
Notably Extinct
Tyler Spindel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Out-Laws
Genndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Fixed
Boots Riley
Director
1 film together
Notably I Love Boosters
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Nancy Meyers
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InternMark Waters
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Magic CampJon Lucas
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JexiElizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pitch Perfect 2Donick Cary
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in PsychedelicsJohn Hamburg
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Why Him?Todd Strauss-Schulson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Final GirlsGenndy Tartakovsky
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FixedDavid Silverman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ExtinctNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NeighborsJake Szymanski
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mike and Dave Need Wedding DatesBoots Riley
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Love BoostersTyler Spindel
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Out-LawsKyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Game Over, Man!Dylan Redford
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Omniboat: A Fast Boat FantasiaSix 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
The Intern
as Jason
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
When We First Met
as Noah Ashby
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Lego Batman Movie
as The Flash (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
as Young Anthony Bourdain
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Magic Camp
as Andy Tuckerman
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. Adam Devine 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
18 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
The Intern
as Jason
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Lego Batman Movie
as The Flash (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
When We First Met
as Noah Ashby
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Magic Camp
as Andy Tuckerman
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Lego Batman Movie
as The Flash (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Lego Batman Movie
as The Flash (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Extinct
as Ed (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Jexi
as Phil
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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