She’s iconic as the action legend Ellen Ripley, but lately, she’s been killing it as Dr. Augustine in Avatar.
In my book, she is massively underrated. The Academy just keeps overlooking her, even though she’s been delivering flawless performances for years.
She’s my absolute favorite actress; I’ve honestly sat through entire movies just because she was in them. Take Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings—I saw that in theaters, and even though she only had a brief appearance, she still stood out. 🕺 Then you have the mediocre stuff like Abduction and The Cold Light of Day, or the total trash that was The Assignment, but she still managed to be great in those too.
She was phenomenal in Copycat, and especially in Snow Cake, where she teamed up again with the late Alan Rickman after that genius comedy Galaxy Quest.
She completely blew me away in A Monster Calls.
She’s just so Charismatic. I love catching her interviews on YouTube.
The opening film for this year's Berlin International Film Festival is My Salinger Year.

Found a solid article in German.
It argues that she’s way more than just her most famous role, highlighting how awesome she is in comedies. It also mentions how she wishes her other work got more credit, specifically noting that she was snubbed for her best performance, which the author thinks was in The Ice Storm by Ang Lee.