Over her 20-year career, Rachel McAdams has collaborated with a lot of Hollywood icons. But at the unveiling ceremony for her Hollywood Walk of Fame star earlier this week, McAdams — who had her breakout roles in back-to-back 2004 hits Mean Girls and The Notebook — singled out one in particular: the late, great Diane Keaton, who played her mother in The Family Stone. “She still felt like acting didn’t come easily to her,” McAdams told Variety. “I was so surprised by that because she’s so effortless, and she gives so much to it. But I still don’t feel like I have the art of acting figured out.”
Fans would probably disagree. McAdams has something for every kind of movie lover: comedies like Wedding Crashers and Game Night; sweeping romances like The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Vow; standard popcorn fare like Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Doctor Strange; and dramas like Southpaw and Spotlight, the latter of which earned her an Oscar nomination. And soon, she will dive back into the horror genre for the first time since 2005’s Red Eye with director Sam Raimi’s Send Help, co-starring Dylan O’Brien. For even more from McAdams, check out these movies on Netflix.
When musicians and longtime friends Lars Erickssong (Will Ferrell) and Sigrit Ericksdóttir (McAdams) get the chance to represent Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest after a horrible accident, they’re thrilled. Their band has struggled to find its footing, and this could be their big break. But as the competition kicks off, tensions rise, and they begin to reconsider their relationship, their talent, and everything they thought they wanted. This parody musical rom-com co-starring Dan Stevens (Apostle) was written by Will & Harper duo Ferrell and Harper Steele, and it was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song.
This coming-of-age dramatic comedy, based on Judy Blume’s classic 1970 novel, follows 11-year-old Margaret Simon (Abby Ryder Fortson) as her life is turned upside down by a move from New York City to a New Jersey suburb. She starts asking questions about how her parents’ different religious backgrounds — her mother (McAdams) was raised Christian and her father (Benny Safdie) was raised Jewish — have impacted her life. With the help of her friends, teachers, and grandmother (Kathy Bates), Margaret navigates the next chapter of her life, including puberty, boys, and the existence of God.
Cady (Lindsay Lohan) has spent her whole life being homeschooled in Africa; when she starts at a new high school in the US, she gets a crash course in the local social hierarchy from a clique of popular girls, the Plastics, who invite her to sit with them. Cady’s new friends, outcasts Janis (Lizzy Caplan) and Damian (Daniel Franzese), see an opportunity to enact revenge against the group’s leader, Regina George (McAdams), and the rest is teen comedy history. Tina Fey (The Four Seasons) wrote the screenplay and Mark Waters (La Dolce Villa) directed. Mean Girls was adapted into a Broadway musical, which then was adapted in 2024 into a movie musical starring Reneé Rapp that’s also available on Netflix.
