[4] In 2014, Avery wrote and directed his first feature, Australian crime thriller film Son of a Gun starring Brenton Thwaites, Ewan McGregor, Alicia Vikander, and Jacek Koman.

Avery directed the war horror film Overlord (2018) for Bad Robot Productions and Paramount Pictures.

[6] Overlord stars Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Pilou Asbæk, Iain De Caestecker, John Magaro and Mathilde Ollivier.

Along with being announced as the director of The Heavy, a Paramount and Bad Robot production, Avery had been recruited by 20th Century Fox to write and direct a remake of Flash Gordon alongside Matthew Vaughn who was to be producing.

He instead directed MGM's Samaritan, a dark superhero film starring Sylvester Stallone, released in August 26, 2022 it went onto to be the number one watched movies on Prime Video that year.