20 Best & Worst Movies From 2016 Oscar Nominees

17. Rachel McAdams

Best: Mean Girls (2004) Spotlight is great and Midnight In Paris is enchanting, but McAdams has never been more definitive to a film's quality than she was in the simply brilliant Mean Girl. It might be classed as a far more lowly film than Spotlight because of the subject matter, but the script is wonderfully complex and McAdams' performance is beautifully on-point. She is a megalomaniac villainess of almost Disney proportions and her line delivery - particularly when she's in full bitch mode - is infinitely watchable. Worst: Aloha (2015) In a sad disaster of a movie, McAdams performance - and indeed those of every one of her co-stars - is swallowed up in a quagmire plot that is almost incomprehensible. The characters are all distinctly hard to like and it's impossible to feel drawn into their romantic entanglements, which is both a fairly of the director and the stars.
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