this weekend, Rachel McAdams stars inside send help, a survival horror thriller in which his character is stranded on a desert island with his overbearing boss (Dylan O’Brien).
Here at Watch with uswe love McAdams. From her devastating romantic dramas to her laugh-out-loud comedies, McAdams is both a talented and versatile performer.
In honor of his latest picture, we thought we’d take a look back at his career highlights and see where they fell on the tomameter.
Here are the five best McAdams movies, ranked by Rotten Tomatoes score.
Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien are putting their survival skills to the test in their new horror film, Send Help. The trailer, which was released in October 2025, showcases their exciting performances as colleagues Bradley Preston and Linda Liddle, respectively. The characters clash in more ways than one when they find themselves stuck in a (…)
5. ‘The family stone’ (2005)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 52 percent
Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) decides to bring his new girlfriend, Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker), home with him to meet his family during Christmas, but doing so is no easy task. She will have to contend with her eccentric and fiercely overprotective parents, Sybil (Diane Keaton) and Kelly (Craig T. Nelson), and her equally loyal siblings, who don’t like how awkward and uptight Meredith seems to be, especially Everett’s younger sister, the sarcastic Amy (McAdams). As tensions rise to a boiling point, can this group of disparate personalities survive the holidays?
A little cheesy, a little angry, The family stone has defied a mixed critical reception and has become something of a cult classic over the years and a Christmas staple for many. The fantastic ensemble cast (which also includes Luke WilsonElizabeth Reaser i Claire Danes), combined with catchy sentimentality, some off-kilter humor, and grippingly unreal characters, produces a strangely endearing holiday comedy that never goes out of style.
4. About Time (2013)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 71 percent
Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) learns an incredible secret from his father (Bill Nighy) when he turns 21: All the men in his family are time travelers. Although they cannot change the course of history in general, they can still change the course of their own lives. So Tim decides to use time travel to improve his love life. When Tim finally meets Mary (McAdams), he uses his charm and special abilities to win her heart. But as Tim’s life goes on, he slowly realizes that he can’t always use time travel to escape the usual problems inherent in being alive.
Although it’s riddled with some time travel-related plot holes, you’ll find yourself totally won over by About the weather irresistible charms, thanks in large part to the chemistry between McAdams and Gleeson. Despite the admittedly absurd nature of the narrative, Richard Curtis brings pure and honest sincerity to the script and direction to create a timeless (no pun intended) romance.
3. ‘Mean Girls’ (2004)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84 percent
Former homeschooler Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) finally enters the chaos of high school and realizes that teenagers are far more beastly than the lions he once knew growing up in Africa. After meeting Janice (Lizzy Caplan) and Damien (Daniel Franzese), Cady quickly learns how to act, how to dress, and about all the different cliques, like the “Plastics,” led by the domineering Regina George (McAdams). When Cady agrees to befriend Regina to “take her down” on Janice’s behalf, Cady is unwittingly drawn into the cheap thrills of popularity.
written by Tina Fey (which infuses his characteristic acerbic wit), bad girls it still endures as one of the greatest American high school movies of all time. Funny, surprisingly sentimental, and filled with too many viral catchphrases to name, the film is a coming-of-age staple as well as a crucial launching pad for actors like Caplan, McAdams, and Amanda Seyfried.
2. ‘Game Night’ (2018)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85 percent
Game obsessives Annie (McAdams) and Max (Jason Bateman) meet and fall in love through their shared love of all things playable, hosting weekly game nights with their pair of suburban friends. But when Max’s older brother Brooks (Kyle Chandler) decide to escalate things by hiring a murder mystery party, the game becomes all too real when they realize that Brooks has actually been kidnapped by thugs. As the night grows increasingly chaotic, Annie and Max find themselves involved in a game with more rules than they know how to follow.
Games Night proved that McAdams still possesses the comedic chops he flaunted bad girls, and that the actress should use these comic gifts much more often than she is allowed to. Of course, McAdams isn’t the only standout in this fantastic cast: Billy Magnussen, Lamorne Morris, and above all Jesse Plemons big laughs are had by all in this fast paced and cleverly edited crime game.
1. ‘Spotlight’ (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97 percent
Based on a series of exhibits published by The Boston Globe, Protagonism takes place in the early 2000s and follows a team of journalists in the globe. This “Spotlight Team” is assigned to report on a disgraced priest who has been accused of sexually abusing countless young boys. Directed by Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton), Walter and his journalists Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams), Michael Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo) and Matt Caroll (Brian by Arcy James) finally realized that they are investigating a decades-long scandal of cover-up of abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.
This Best Picture-winning investigative drama is both overwhelming and riveting—a slow-burning pressure cooker of tension, control, and mounting revelations that will leave you in a state of frustrating outrage. while The focus The conclusion is perhaps not the most cathartic, the filmmakers intentionally refrain from glorifying journalists and indulging in clichés. Instead, the film unfolds its absorbing narrative with grace, anchored by a top-notch cast.