Atomic Blonde cements Charlize Theron as an action star

Charlize Theron became an action star with her role as Furiosa in 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road, but she had spent decades fighting for roles in a genre that favors men. She played support in The Italian Job and Reindeer Games, and leads in Aeon Flux and the pair of The Hunstman films. But never — Fury Road included — has Theron been given the chance to solitarily own the spotlight. That changes with Atomic Blonde.
Atomic Blonde, which premiered this week at SXSW, feels like the cu