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Rachel McAdams has 32 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Notebook.
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Last Christmas
2019
Comedy · Drama

Ashby
2015
Drama · Romance

Jab Harry Met Sejal
2017
Comedy · Drama

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2012
Comedy · Drama

Take Me Home
2011
Drama · Comedy

Juliet, Naked
2018
Comedy · Drama

Delicacy
2011
Drama · Comedy

Geography Club
2013
Comedy · Drama

Doctor Strange
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Disney+ · Included

Spotlight
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

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2026 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Hulu · Included

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Disney+ · Included

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Hulu · Included

Mean Girls
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Paramount+ · Included

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Gena Rowlands

The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
Dir. Richard Curtis · With Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy

After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
Dir. Scott Derrickson · With Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Dir. Tom McCarthy · With Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates

Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. He soon finds an unlikely savior in Tick Willis, a former fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most.
Dir. Antoine Fuqua · With Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker

Based on the best-seller book 'The Little Prince', the movie tells the story of a little girl that lives with resignation in a world where efficiency and work are the only dogmas. Everything will change when accidentally she discovers her neighbor that will tell her about the story of the Little Prince that he once met.
Dir. Mark Osborne · With Riley Osborne, Mackenzie Foy, Jeff Bridges

Eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy England.
Dir. Guy Ritchie · With Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams

Two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it's a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
Dir. Sam Raimi · With Rachel McAdams, Dylan O'Brien, Edyll Ismail

There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.
Dir. Guy Ritchie · With Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace

Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.
Dir. Sam Raimi · With Benedict Cumberbatch, Xochitl Gomez, Elizabeth Olsen

When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
Dir. Kevin Macdonald · With Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams

When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.
Dir. Kelly Fremon Craig · With Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
Dir. Mark Waters · With Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lizzy Caplan

Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing relationship with her parents, or the ending of her relationship with her ex-fiance. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.
Dir. Michael Sucsy · With Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neill
Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.
Dir. John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein · With Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler

A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential terrorists.
Dir. Anton Corbijn · With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Willem Dafoe, Robin Wright

Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
Dir. Robert Schwentke · With Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Arliss Howard

An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa realizes her seatmate plans to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot against the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed. As the miles tick by, she's in a race against time to find a way to warn the potential victims before it's too late.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox

John and his buddy Jeremy are emotional criminals who know how to use a woman's hopes and dreams for their own carnal gain. Their modus operandi: crashing weddings. Normally, they meet guests who want to toast the romantic day with a random hook-up. But when John meets Claire, he discovers what true love – and heartache – feels like.
Dir. David Dobkin · With Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken

New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction to Esti, a female friend. Their fortuitous and happy reunion soon reignites their burning passion as the two women explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
Dir. Sebastián Lelio · With Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola

Not only is Jessica Spencer the most popular girl in school -- she is also the meanest. But things change for the attractive teen when a freak accident involving a cursed pair of earrings and a chance encounter at a gas station causes her to switch bodies with Clive, a sleazy crook. Jessica, in the form of the repulsive Clive, struggles to adjust to this radical alteration and sets out to get her own body back before the upcoming prom.
Dir. Tom Brady · With Rob Schneider, Anna Faris, Matthew Lawrence

The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S.
Dir. Neil Burger · With Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, Michael Peña
During a sun-soaked Sicilian summer, aimless filmmaking undergrad and back-seat radical Tanino has a fling with Sally, a dreamy American tourist from an upper background. When summer ends, Sally flies back home, without ever reaching out. Clueless, a smitten Tanino decides to pay her a surprise visit under the pretense of returning a camera she left behind. But when he gets there, he quickly realizes the reality of America—and his relationship with Sally's—is far from the idealized version his small-town boy imagination conjured.
Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Corrado Fortuna, Rachel McAdams, Jessica De Marco

An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
Dir. Thomas Bezucha · With Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Jessica Parker, Diane Keaton

A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.
Dir. Roger Michell · With Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton

Two small-town singers chase their pop star dreams at a global music competition, where high stakes, scheming rivals and onstage mishaps test their bond.
Dir. David Dobkin · With Rachel McAdams, Will Ferrell, Pierce Brosnan

A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much – so instead he decides to kill her.
Dir. Ira Sachs · With Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson

Neil is torn between two loves: Marina, the European woman who comes to the United States to be with him, and Jane, the old flame from his hometown he reconnects with. Neil’s doubts about his life and loves are reflected in the crisis of faith experienced by Father Quintana, who only sees pain and the loss of hope in the world.
Dir. Terrence Malick · With Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams
The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Karoline Herfurth
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