Rachel McAdams’ 11 best films, from Mean Girls to Send Help

Movieweb published a ranked list of the 11 best Rachel McAdams movies, charting her career from early rom‑com breakthroughs to a 2026 horror return.

The piece notes McAdams’ early breakthrough in the early 2000s with The Notebook and highlights her versatility across comedies like Mean Girls and Wedding Crashers, romantic dramas such as The Vow and About Time, and dramatic turns in Midnight in Paris, Passion, Disobedience, Game Night, and Spotlight. Spotlight (2015) is identified as her most critically acclaimed project, winning Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay and earning McAdams her only Oscar nomination to date for Best Supporting Actress.

Movieweb closes the list with Send Help (2026), a Sam Raimi‑led thriller in which McAdams’ character Linda Liddle and Dylan O’Brien’s Bradley Preston are the sole survivors of a plane crash on a remote island; the outlet describes her performance as fierce, physically and psychologically demanding, and suggests it may mark the next step in her career. The article covers her filmography through Send Help and does not detail other future projects.

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Culture, Rachel Mcadams, The Notebook, Mean Girls, Spotlight, Send Help