No one embodied the dark grunge of the 1990s like Winona Ryder. The doe-eyed actress, who cut her hair short à la Audrey Hepburn and Jean Seberg, embraced macabre roles and became a lightning rod for the decade’s brand of teen angst. It came naturally. At 11, Ryder jumped onstage at a Pretenders Concert, and later inspired a punk band to call themselves the Wynona Riders. “I myself am strange and unusual,” she declared in 1988’s Beetlejuice, playing the brooding gothic teenager Lydia. With steady sensitivity, Ryder captured the strange ennui of one’s mid-20s: think of Lelaina, the uncertain yet determined creative in Reality Bites, or shy Susanna in Girl, Interrupted. A new series at the Metrograph pays homage to Ryder’s enduring impact as the “It Girl” of Gen X. —Maggie Turner