Kate Winslet, one of the most justly acclaimed and celebrated actresses of her or any generation, has a new movie coming out. In The Mountain Between Us, Winslet plays a photojournalist who charters a private plane across the Rockies with a surgeon she doesn’t know (Idris Elba) to get home for her wedding. When the plane crashes up in the mountaintops, Winslet and Elba have to work together — perhaps finding comfort in each other in the process — to save themselves.

The Mountain Between Us falls comfortably into a mini-genre I like to call Kate Winslet Post-Oscar Choices. Winslet won the 2008 Best Actress Oscar for her performance in The Reader a movie that was seen by few people and disliked by everybody who didn’t see it, especially once it nabbed a Best Picture nomination that many figured belonged to either The Dark Knight or WALL-E. By this point in her career, Winslet had been nominated for six Oscars, and the general consensus was that she was the best (or one of the best) working actresses never to have won. But public opinion is fickle, and Oscars make crazy persons of us all, so the 2008 Oscar campaign — which saw Winslet winning awards for both The Reader and her domestic melodrama Revolutionary Road and delivering speech after breathless speech that betrayed a hunger to win that many saw as unseemly — ended up changing the public opinion of Winslet in some fundamental way. By the time she won, she was no longer the under-rewarded phenom but rather just another overexposed awards-season commodity.

The truth of the matter is, the 2008 Oscar didn’t change Winslet fundamentally as an actress. But it did seem to change her career choices. Whether or not an appetite for Oscar gold was her prime motivator, Winslet’s pre-Oscar choices all seemed to follow that same narrative. Even the projects that missed — like 2003’s disastrous The Life of David Gale — felt like they made sense given what the mission seemed to be. After 2008 — really, after the release and second round of awards for the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce — Winslet’s career has felt more wayward. Not exactly ruinous; there have been enough high points to keep reminding us how wonderfully talented she is. But just … a little crazy. The Mountain Between Us is a great example of a Kate Winslet Post-Oscar Choice. Working with a talented filmmaker (Oscar-nominated Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad) on a film that has the sheen of respectability but is nevertheless a little beneath her. After all, this movie could be as triumph-of-the-human-spirit as it wants to be; it’s still going to be sold as a will-they-or-won’t-they about Kate Winslet and Idris Elba having sex on a mountain.

This is the Kate Winslet Post-Oscar Choice in a nutshell: you can see where it might have seemed like a good idea, but you can’t shake the sense that Winslet is slumming it. And that maybe this is all a way for Winslet to seek out movies that are a little more fun than the self-consciously Important films The Reader and Revolutionary Road which got her tagged as the Oscar-Bait Queen.

But enough armchair psychologizing of one of our great screen actresses! Time to rank Winslet’s post-The Reader film choices in order of least to most bizarre.

10 'Steve Jobs' (2015) Director: Danny Boyle

Character: Joanna Hoffman, right-hand woman to the title megalomaniac

How Bizarre (scale of 1-10): 1 This may be a case of results-based risk analysis, but everything about Steve Jobs worked. It was a great script from Aaron Sorkin, and Joanna was a great role, second only to Jobs in importance to the script. It allowed Winslet to stretch while also relying on her abundant charm, and ultimately Joanna is the closest thing Steve Jobs has to a hero. Winslet was rewarded with her first Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actress, since her big win seven years prior. Where to stream Steve Jobs

9 'Contagion' (2011) Director: Steven Soderbergh

Character: Dr. Erin Mears, CDC doctor sent to investigate the outbreak of a new pandemic.

How Bizarre (scale of 1-10): 2 Again, as with Steve Jobs, there’s no good reason to pass up this movie, one of Soderbergh’s most underrated. The all-star cast, including Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, and Marion Cotillard, put Winslet in fine company, without the film ever feeling weighted down by its star power. The only possible drawback would be the relative lack of screen time, but when you’re in a movie like this one where everything is working, I can’t imagine that being too huge a concern. More people should talk about this movie, something you could say about a lot of Winslet’s choices of this era, though Contagion is the only one where you could mean it as a compliment. Where to stream Contagion

8 'A Little Chaos' (2014) Director: Alan Rickman

Character: Sabine De Barra, tasked with building an outdoor ballroom in the Versailles gardens for King Louis XIV

How Bizarre (scale of 1-10): 4 This would rank higher if the film itself didn’t possess a humble charm that elevates everybody involved with it. On the surface, Winslet lending herself to an odd little period romance about a gardener is strange, and director Alan Rickman’s only other project as a director, 1997’s The Winter Guest, didn’t do much for Emma Thompson’s career either. But, of course, Rickman and Winslet (and Thompson, for that matter) are family, going back to Sense and Sensibility, and you can feel the affection between Winslet and Rickman in their scenes in A Little Chaos. It’s not the next great costume drama or anything, but it’s a beautiful little movie that could have had 30 minutes cut from it and become a great movie, so it’s still worth appreciating. Where to stream A Little Chaos

7 The 'Divergent' Series Director: Neil Burger; Robert Schwentke

Character: Jeanine Matthews

How Bizarre (scale of 1-10): 5 The Divergent movies went from bad to worse to disastrous, and ultimately we may never see the series concluded on film. But it’s tough to lay the blame for that on Winslet’s doorstep. Sure, Winslet was too good to play the bureaucratic bad guy in a YA sci-fi adaptation, but so were Julianne Moore in The Hunger Games and Meryl Streep in The Giver. This is a rite of passage for Oscar-winning actresses, it seems, and Winslet was just following suit. Where to stream Divergent

6 'Carnage' (2011) Director: Roman Polanski

Character: Nancy Cowan, Brooklyn parent whose son hit another boy with a stick

How Bizarre (scale of 1-10): 6 Yes, Roman Polanski is Roman Polanski, with all the controversy that implies. It’s not really enough to simply point to Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby and like it’s a no-brainer, because it is. It is a brainer. There is certainly room to refuse a Polanski film. This particular film, an adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s decidedly stagebound play God of Carnage really ought to have occasioned some more thought go into the decision. It’s a tricky adaptation, and if you watch the movie, you’ll see it’s ultimately too tricky for Polanski and Reza (adapting her own work) to pull off. Still, that didn’t stop fellow Oscar winners Christoph Waltz and Jodie Foster (along with John C. Reilly) from signing on. God of Carnage was a savagely funny, loudly immediate play that held audiences in its grip and squeezed, while Polanski’s Carnage felt lightweight and frivolous. Where to stream Carnage

5 'Triple 9' (2016) Director: John Hillcoat

Character: Irina Vlaslov, Russian mob wife and principal antagonist

How Bizarre (scale of 1-10): 7 From the director of The Road comes a crime thriller starring an absurdly overqualified cast including Winslet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Aaron Paul, Anthony Mackie, and a pre-Wonder Woman Gal Gadot. You almost want to go see it, don’t you? Well, hardly anybody else did, and this hardly anybody saw Winslet’s insane big-hair-and-vodka take on a Russian mob boss. Where to stream Triple 9

4 'The Dressmaker' (2015) Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse

Character: Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage, a dressmaker who returns to her small Australia town after being exiled for a murder

How Bizarre (scale of 1-10): 8 This movie is bughouse crazy but maybe doesn’t know it, and Kate Winslet took a look at this script (from Moorhouse and her husband, Muriel’s Wedding director P.J. Hogan) and said “I want in!” You could almost understand it as a camp entry into her filmography. It would certainly fit into the Post-Oscar Winslet trend of picking movies that are slightly beneath her just because they make for strange Oscar bait. It would be hard to imagine why Winslet would sign onto a movie with such limited appeal, though at least in the finished product, Winslet looks like a million bucks. It’s easily the most Movie Star performance she’s done in a decade, and the hair, makeup, and costume departments have nothing to be ashamed of. Where to stream The Dressmaker

3 'Labor Day' (2013) Director: Jason Reitman

Character: Adele Wheeler, depressed housewife and mom who ends up sweatily in love with an escaped criminal

How Bizarre (scale of 1-10): 8 The Joyce Maynard novel upon which this film is based is highly acclaimed, but the wheels were falling off of the Jason Reitman bandwagon by this point, so few were all that eager to make excuses for the tonal problems and overall muddiness of Labor Day the film. No easier a sell than Peter Travers at Rolling Stone called the movie a “treacly cocktail of romantic swill.” I mean!

2 'Movie 43' (2013) Director: Peter Farrelly

Character: Beth, who ends up on a date with a man (Hugh Jackman) with testicles hanging from his neck

How Bizarre (scale of 1-10): 9 Honestly, I don’t know whose gambling debts Winslet was paying off for starring in this aggressively off-putting and vulgar series of comedy vignettes, but if there’s a more obvious example of Winslet slumming it after winning her Oscar than staring at Hugh Jackman’s neck-testicles for the (blessedly brief) running time of their little corner of the movie. Where to stream Movie 43