J. Smith-Cameron’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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J. Smith-Cameron has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Succession.
Recurring themes

Things to Come
2016
Drama

The Movie of My Life
2017
Drama

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
2011
Drama

The House by the Sea
2017
Drama

Just Like Our Parents
2017
Drama

Captain Fantastic
2016
Drama · Comedy

The First Beautiful Thing
2010
Comedy · Drama

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2012
Drama · Comedy

Succession
2018 · Series · Actor
Top 4%Max · Included

Turtles All the Way Down
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Max · Included

Like Sunday, Like Rain
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Prime Video · Included

Vengeance
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Netflix · Included

Rectify
2013 · Series · Actor
Top 42%AMC+ · Included

Christine
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 46%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
Dir. Jesse Armstrong · With Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook

Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts.
Dir. Hannah Marks · With Isabela Merced, Cree Cicchino, Judy Reyes

A struggling musician becomes a 12-year-old musical prodigy's guardian for a summer.
Dir. Frank Whaley · With Leighton Meester, Debra Messing, Billie Joe Armstrong

Ben, a journalist from New York City, travels to West Texas in order to investigate the death of a girl he was hooking up with while recording a murder mystery podcast along the way.
Dir. B.J. Novak · With B.J. Novak, Boyd Holbrook, J. Smith-Cameron

An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.
Dir. Asger Leth · With Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell

After 19 years on Death Row for the rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend, Daniel Holden is going home. His conviction has been vacated due to new DNA evidence. Now he has to return to a world he no longer knows and his reentry into the outside world may be as unforgiving as prison. Daniel is haunted by the past, dogged by the present, and uncertain of the future. As he struggles to adapt to his new life, his homecoming reignites the fears of a small town and threatens to shatter his family’s fragile peace. Daniel’s alleged crime divided a community. Will his freedom tear it in half?
Dir. Ray McKinnon · With Aden Young, Abigail Spencer, Adelaide Clemens

In 1974, television reporter Christine Chubbuck struggles with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.
Dir. Antonio Campos · With Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
Dir. Kenneth Lonergan · With Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick

Harriet may only be in the sixth grade, but she's already found her calling: to be a spy. In a private journal she takes everywhere, Harriet records suspicious activity and keeps a running list of observations on virtually everyone she knows. It seems harmless enough until, one day, someone finds the journal and exposes Harriet's critical thoughts about her classmates. Suddenly, even her best friends are against her, and Harriet resolves to take revenge.
Dir. Bronwen Hughes · With Michelle Trachtenberg, Rosie O'Donnell, J. Smith-Cameron
A horrible massacre strikes up after an outcast teenage girl is taunted by a group of high school jocks, all of them unaware of her cutthroat telekinetic powers.
Dir. Katt Shea · With Emily Bergl, Jason London, Amy Irving
17-year-old Lisa feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in causing a traffic accident that claimed a woman's life. In her attempts to set things right, she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and, most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course with the realities and compromises of the adult world.
Dir. Kenneth Lonergan · With Anna Paquin, J. Smith-Cameron, Mark Ruffalo

Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
Dir. Christina Choe · With Andrea Riseborough, John Leguizamo, Steve Buscemi
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