Sadie Sink's best eight performances, ranked

Collider has published a ranking of Sadie Sink's eight best film and television performances.

The list spans her career from early film roles like The Glass Castle (2017) and the horror Eli (2019) through genre work in the Fear Street trilogy and high-profile turns in All Too Well: The Short Film (2021), Dear Zoe (2022) and Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale (2022). At No. 1 is her long-running role as Max Mayfield in Stranger Things (2016–2025), a part she joined in Season 2 (2017) and whose Season 4 episode "Dear Billy" drew widespread praise; at No. 8 the piece places the experimental, polarizing musical O'Dessa (2025).

The feature notes that several projects divided critics while repeatedly highlighting Sink’s performances as a consistently praised element. It also places her screen work alongside recent stage success—naming John Proctor Is the Villain—and mentions she is slated to play Juliet in a 2026 production, underscoring a transition from child actor to a performer taking dramatic and musical risks.

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Culture, Sadie Sink, Stranger Things, O'dessa, The Whale, All Too Well