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In the Harry Potter books, Severus Snape told Harry the following while teaching him Occlumency:

"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by any invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter. Or at least most minds are... It is true, however, that those who have mastered Legilimency are able, under certain conditions, to delve into the minds of their victims and to interpret their findings correctly."

However, in Fantastic Beasts, Queenie is shown possessing an extremely strong ability to read minds, to the point she can actually read the "sentences" forming in people head in real time. Is there a reason for these conflicting portrayals?

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I noted this while watching the movie, also that here job at the ministry seemed to consist of fetching tea which made me wonder if she (aside from the cooking) was commensurately under-skilled or deficient in "regular" magic... she does seem to be written in the roll of damsel in distress. – Toby 47 mins ago
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Queenie seems to be an unusually powerful Legilimens

Alison Sudol, the actress who portrays Queenie, discussed her character's powers in a 2016 interview with Pottermore; what she describes is quite commensurate with Snape's description:

[S]he sees into people. She's not just reading what you're currently thinking, she’s reading you. Being a Legilimens means she's reading your whole story, she's seeing all of your truths.

This was brought up a little more in an interview with Entertainment Weekly:

"She's basically a complete and utter magical empath," Sudol tells EW. "She's able to read people — so it's not just reading somebody’s thoughts. She's can [sic] read into someone's story, she can see people's goals.

Where Queenie mainly differs is that her Legilimency is more passive than active; that EW article describes her as a "magical antenna", though I'm not sure where they pulled that from.

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It's true that in the movie, she clearly mention that she can't "turn it off" during the scene where she talk with Newt about Leta Lestrange. Maybe that's what they were referencing with the magical antenna analogy. – Maël Nison 1 hour ago
    
When she says "Being a Legilimens means (…)", it suggest it's not specific to her character but to legilimency. This seems to be a case of script writers not taking consistency into account too much. – Nowhere man 22 mins ago

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