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Hungry Hearts (2014)
In one of his first leading roles, Driver gave audiences a taste of the intense leading man he would eventually become as one half of a deeply troubled couple (with a newborn child) in Hungry Hearts.
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What If (2013)
One thing we haven’t gotten enough of—in the post-Girls era—is Driver showing off his full comedy chops. In What If, a romcom where he stars alongside Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, and Mackenzie Davis, he gets to have a whole lot of fun as a romantic co-lead (and yell about having sex and eating nachos).
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White Noise (2022)
White Noise marked Driver’s fifth collaboration with writer/director Noah Baumbach. And while the movie didn’t wind up getting the Oscar love that it may have aspired for, it still found Driver giving a committed, and intense—if deeply strange—performance. Fans of Don DeLillo’s book upon which the film is based probably enjoyed what he brought to the table here.
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House of Gucci (2021)
In a movie full of larger-than-life, outrageous characters (and even more outrageous accents), Driver manages to somewhat keep House of Gucci on the rails. He plays Ridley Scott’s Maurizio Gucci, and while he, too, has an absurd accent, it somehow winds up being the most grounded and reasoned performance in the whole film. This movie is camp, but Driver winds up playing it pretty straight—which mostly works.
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Frances Ha (2013)
Driver’s first collaboration with Noah Baumbach came as Lev, a dude who comes in and out of the life of Greta Gerwig’s titular character as she flails her way through her 20s. This light and fun character feels almost like the opposite of Driver’s intense turn in another coming-of-age-in-NYC-story, Girls.
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The Report (2019)
In The Report, Driver plays Daniel Jones, the real life investigator who led the search into the CIA’s use of torture in the aftermath of 9/11. This gripping true story isn’t one of Driver’s flashiest performances, but it may be his most pertinent to the world we live in today.
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Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Driver made his first—and so far only—appearance in a Coen Brothers film with an ever-so-brief couple of scenes as Al Cody in Inside Llewyn Davis. He makes himself known in those scenes, though, as a gimmicky country music cowboy whose sole job is to say things like “OUUUUTER…..