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Top 15 Sydney Sweeney Movie Roles Ranked From Worst to Best

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Ignacio Weil

Entertainment - May 17th 2026, 13:00 GMT+2

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For this ranking, we’re sticking strictly to Sydney Sweeney’s movie roles, which means no music videos, short films, or TV shows — yes, even *Euphoria*, no matter how much it belongs in the larger conversation about her best work. We’re also judging the performances more than the movies themselves, so don’t be surprised if a rough film sneaks higher than its reputation would suggest. | © Sony Pictures

Cropped Cassidy Way — 15. Cassidy Way (2016)

Sydney Sweeney was still in early-career survival mode here, and it shows in the material more than in her effort. As Kelsey Connors, she gets trapped inside a bargain-bin thriller where the tension feels reheated and the character writing gives her very little room to maneuver. She has flashes of presence, especially when the family paranoia kicks in, but the movie mostly treats her like another moving part in the chaos. | © Red Thread Pictures

Cropped National Anthem — 14. Americana (2023)

Penny Jo Poplin sounds like the kind of role that should let Sweeney go full oddball: a small-town waitress with country-star dreams, a Dolly Parton fixation, and a stolen artifact mess spiraling around her. She brings sweetness and a slightly daffy vulnerability to it, but the film is so busy juggling crime, satire, Western flavor, and ensemble weirdness that her performance never fully takes over. It is charming, just not especially sharp. | © Lionsgate

Cropped Under the Silver Lake — 13. Under the Silver Lake (2018)

This one ranks low for a simple reason: Sydney Sweeney is barely in it. As Shooting Star #2, she slips into David Robert Mitchell’s sun-baked L.A. conspiracy maze like a blink-and-you’ll-miss-her piece of the scenery, which is fitting for a movie obsessed with disposable fame and coded images. It is a cool credit to spot in hindsight, but not a role with enough meat to judge her acting in any serious way. | © A24

Cropped Clementine — 12. Clementine (2019)

As Lana, Sweeney has the kind of mysterious, slippery presence that fits *Clementine*’s slow-burn mood nicely. She plays the character like someone who might be innocent, manipulative, lonely, or all three depending on the scene, and that ambiguity is the strongest thing she brings to the film. The problem is that the movie is so hushed and restrained that her performance sometimes feels boxed in by all the tasteful distance. | © Oscilloscope

Cropped Big Time Adolescence — 11. Big Time Adolescence (2019)

Sweeney’s Holly is not the center of *Big Time Adolescence*, but she understands the movie’s specific brand of teenage embarrassment better than some of the bigger, louder characters around her. She gives Holly a natural, unfussy energy, making her feel like a real person who wandered into Pete Davidson’s orbit rather than a stock girlfriend role. Still, the script mostly uses her to support someone else’s coming-of-age disaster, so the ceiling is limited. | © Hulu

Cropped Madame Web — 10. Madame Web (2024)

Julia Cornwall should have been an easy win for Sweeney: shy, brainy, future Spider-Woman energy, glasses doing half the character work. Instead, *Madame Web* strands her in a superhero movie that feels allergic to momentum, chemistry, and basic human conversation. To her credit, she finds small notes of nervous sweetness under the clunky dialogue, but no actor was escaping this web looking graceful. A higher ranking would be cosplay charity. | © Sony Pictures

Cropped Anyone But You — 9. Anyone But You (2023)

Bea turned Sweeney into a full-on rom-com headliner, even if the performance itself is more effective in pieces than as a whole. Her chemistry with Glen Powell does a lot of heavy lifting, and once the film leans into screwball embarrassment, she looks more relaxed and funnier. The early scenes can feel stiff, with every awkward pause underlined twice, but she sells the glossy movie-star fantasy better than the genre purists wanted to admit. | © Sony Pictures

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Claire Garrett gives Sweeney a messier, sharper lane than some of her studio work, playing a daughter whose desperation keeps pulling Julianne Moore’s character deeper into danger. She is not asked to carry the whole film, but she does make Claire feel volatile in a way that keeps the story breathing. Some beats push hard into troubled-child thriller territory, yet Sweeney’s best moments catch the fear underneath the manipulation. | © Apple Original Films

Cropped Nocturne — 7. Nocturne (2020)

Juliet Lowe is one of Sweeney’s better early showcases because the role lets her weaponize insecurity instead of just looking wounded. *Nocturne* is clearly haunted by *Black Swan*, sometimes to a distracting degree, but Sweeney gives the familiar jealousy spiral a prickly, uncomfortable edge. She plays ambition as something embarrassing before it becomes dangerous, which is much more interesting than simply acting possessed. The movie wobbles; she keeps playing the right keys. | © Amazon Studios

Eden 2024 cropped processed by imagy — 6. Eden (2024)

In Ron Howard’s island-survival powder keg, Sweeney’s Margret Wittmer could have been swallowed whole by the bigger personalities around her. Instead, she gives the film a grounded, quietly stubborn center, especially when the story starts turning its paradise fantasy into a sweaty social experiment from hell. It is not the flashiest performance in the ensemble, and that is partly the point. Her restraint cuts through the melodrama without pretending the movie is subtler than it is. | © Vertical

Cropped The Voyeurs — 5. The Voyeurs (2021)

*The Voyeurs* is trashy, glossy, deeply ridiculous, and oddly better when it stops pretending otherwise. Sweeney understands the assignment as Pippa, playing curiosity, desire, guilt, and obsession like they are all feeding the same bad decision machine. The twists get absurd enough to need their own legal waiver, but she anchors the whole thing with a watchable, slightly dangerous fascination. Not prestige work, exactly, but very effective star work. | © Amazon Studios

Cropped Reality — 4. Reality (2023)

No glamour, no big speeches, no actorly fireworks disguised as seriousness — *Reality* works because Sweeney strips everything down. Playing Reality Winner during an FBI interrogation built from real transcript material, she lets discomfort accumulate in tiny changes: a swallowed answer, a nervous laugh, a face trying not to reveal the math happening behind it. It is one of her most disciplined performances, and it proved she did not need spectacle to hold the frame. | © HBO Films

Christy 2025 sydney sweeney cropped processed by imagy — 3. Christy (2025)

The movie around her may lean into familiar biopic shape, but Sweeney’s Christy Martin is too committed to dismiss as awards-bait cosplay. She changes her body, her posture, her rhythm, and her whole emotional temperature for the role, catching both the public swagger of a boxing pioneer and the private terror of a woman trapped by abuse. The film struggled commercially, but the performance itself hits far harder than the box office did. | © Black Bear

Cropped Immaculate — 2. Immaculate (2024)

Sister Cecilia might be Sweeney’s best pure horror role because it uses every part of her screen image and then drags it through blood, faith, panic, and rage. She begins with wide-eyed devotion, lets suspicion creep in slowly, and finishes with the kind of physical, throat-shredding commitment that horror fans remember long after the plot mechanics fade. *Immaculate* is uneven, but as a showcase for Sweeney’s intensity, it absolutely delivers. | © Neon

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Millie Calloway gives Sweeney the cleanest blend of movie-star accessibility and performance control in her film career so far. Amanda Seyfried gets the showier chaos, but Sweeney’s job is trickier: she has to pull the audience through the mansion’s polished nightmare while keeping just enough hidden behind Millie’s survival instinct. The result is controlled, commercial, and sneakier than it first appears. She is not overplaying the thriller; she is setting the trap. | © Lionsgate

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Sydney Sweeney’s movie career is no longer just a side note to her television fame. Between Anyone But You, Reality, Immaculate, and a run of smaller, stranger choices, she has built a filmography that jumps from glossy romance to nerve-racking drama without always landing cleanly. Ranking her movie roles from worst to best means looking past the hype and asking which parts actually gave her something memorable to play. Some are thin showcases, some are smart risks, and a few prove exactly why Hollywood keeps betting on her.

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Sydney Sweeney’s movie career is no longer just a side note to her television fame. Between Anyone But You, Reality, Immaculate, and a run of smaller, stranger choices, she has built a filmography that jumps from glossy romance to nerve-racking drama without always landing cleanly. Ranking her movie roles from worst to best means looking past the hype and asking which parts actually gave her something memorable to play. Some are thin showcases, some are smart risks, and a few prove exactly why Hollywood keeps betting on her.