This is the case:
"While he (Alan Rickman) was often typecast as baddies, he played a broad range of characters, bringing depth, nuance, and humour to every role he ever took on. Even if a movie or play was not great, after you'd see anything he was in, you'd feel the need to emphatically tell someone "...but Alan Rickman was awesome." Because he inevitably was; he was consistently superb. I don't think there has been a Rickman performance that one could ever look at and say, "Meh. He was OK."
