She starred in the short form comedy series Dummy (2020), for which she received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress.

[12] She played an ambitious high school debater in Rocket Science (2007), earning an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female.

Later that year, she made her final appearance as Jessica Stanley in Twilight's fourth installment, Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011).

Also that year, she lent her voice to the stop-motion animated film ParaNorman, starred in the commercially successful crime drama End of Watch, and appeared in Robert Redford's political thriller The Company You Keep.

It received mostly positive reviews from critics, who called Kendrick's performance "splendid", saying that she "hits just the right note between pithy and chummy".

[17] In 2013, Kendrick featured in the romantic comedy-drama Drinking Buddies, which received mostly positive reviews from critics, as well as the largely panned fantasy comedy Rapture-Palooza.

Kendrick was next seen playing Cinderella in Disney's Into the Woods (2014), director Rob Marshall's film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical of the same name.

Kendrick competed in the first season of Lip Sync Battle against John Krasinski, one of the show's executive producers, in an episode aired in April 2015.

She first performed "Steal My Girl" by One Direction, in which she jokingly revealed the object of her affection to be Krasinski's newlywed wife, Emily Blunt.

[19] Kendrick played a supporting role in Digging for Fire, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and received a limited release in August of that year.

[28] Also in 2019, it was announced that Kendrick would star as a state trooper with irreversible hearing loss in Unsound, directed by Bharat Nalluri.

For her performance, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series.

[32][33] Also in 2020, Kendrick starred in the HBO Max romantic comedy anthology series Love Life, for which she additionally served as an executive producer.

[35][36] Helen Barlow of The New Zealand Herald and Mary Pols of Time agreed that Kendrick was often cast as mean characters early in her film career.

[37][38] In addition to contributing comedic relief in supporting roles,[38] she became known for playing neurotic yet warm, endearing women in a range of genres.

[44] The Philippine Star said Kendrick's versatility and commitment to ultimately resulted in her becoming the first main Twilight cast member nominated for an Oscar.

[46] Her public profile grew from starring in a series of high-profile musical films,[47] with Pitch Perfect cementing her as "one of her generation’s most adept 20-something actresses", according to Asawin Suebsaeng of Mother Jones.

[49] Citing Pitch Perfect, The Last Five Years and Into The Woods as examples, Helen Whitaker of Glamour found musicals "to be the only constant" in her diverse filmography.

[42] Burr felt Kendrick "might have been a valued triple threat" similar to Ginger Rogers had she been famous during the studio era.

[62] Emma Stefansky of Vanity Fair declared her one of the funniest women in Hollywood,[63] whereas Sadaf Ahsan of the National Post said Kendrick has cultivated an image that is charming, endearing, and precocious both on and off-screen, comparing her to Shirley Temple.

[56] In 2017, Elle writer Antonia Blyth described the actress as warm, friendly, and honest "with none of the typical celebrity reserve", despite her growing fame.

[66] She has spoken about experiencing gender bias in Hollywood, specially times when she has been forced to wait for a film's male characters to be cast before she is seriously considered for a role.