RogerEbert.com had a nice writeup of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists’s countdown of the top 55 female film characters of all time.

I would’ve put His Girl Friday’s Hildy in the top 10 (she’s number 16). But even though I’m not the biggest film aficionado, I already knew who was going to be no. 2 and 1: Ripley and Marge Gunderson.

Both are singularly unique female characters for their time, and this is sadly the case decades later. …