This Collider opinion piece by Safwan Azeem, published on 8 July 2026, argues that although Laura Dern has appeared in more than 60 feature films since 1973 across wildly different genres, four of them stand out as genuine masterpieces. The article's central claim is that these films are exceptional not simply because Dern is good in them, but because they know how to use her screen presence within the wider machinery of the film. The text only fully details two of the four entries before breaking off into unrelated site content.

The two films described are Greta Gerwig's *Little Women* (2019), in which Dern plays Marmee, the mother of the March sisters, bringing a sense of disciplined, hard-won patience to the role — notably in a scene where she admits she feels angry almost every day. The other is *Marriage Story* (2019), where Dern plays divorce lawyer Nora Fanshaw, a warm but dangerous figure whose celebrated monologue about the impossible standards placed on mothers turns a supporting part into one of the sharpest portraits of modern divorce. The remainder of the page dissolves into an unrelated "Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie?" quiz, so the third- and fourth-ranked films are not actually named in the supplied text.