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The Assistant

2019

Kitty Green

Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen, Dagmara Dominczyk, Kristine Froseth ...

6.2

4,598

Drama Jane (Julia Garner) is a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. Her day is much like any other assistant’s – making coffee, changing the paper in the copy machine, ordering lunch, arranging travel, taking phone messages, onboarding a new hire. But as Jane follows her daily routine, she, and we, grow increasingly aware of the abuse ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Harvey Weinstein doesn’t appear in 'The Assistant,' and nobody mentions him by name, but make no mistake (...) a significant cultural statement in cinematic form"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"Green (...) adopts a style of low-key minimalism that throws the magnitude of what she’s showing us into stark relief (...) The silence of this movie is devastating"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"An exasperatingly low-key look at gender dynamics in the workplace (...) Green’s film feels so restrained, you’d think she was afraid of being sued for slander."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A potent provocation that stands as a defining snapshot of the MeToo era (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Alison Willmore Vulture	"'The Assistant' Is the first great movie about Me Too (...) [It] shares an understanding that the man himself is less psychologically interesting than the people around him"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] maintains an intriguing and well managed tension, and the film’s exacting evocation of a very particular time (...) will stir the interest of industry members (...) A more general public, however, will likely find Green’s approach dry and too restrained."	NEU
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"A diagnostic view of a reign of terror"	POS
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"At times, it feels like watching 'The Devil Wears Prada' be reworked by Ingmar Bergman (...) a sort of devastating slow-drip portrait of the power structures that allowed a man like Weinstein to happen"	POS
United States	Kyle Smith National Review	"For a movie about sexual misconduct, it looks an awful lot like a movie about making coffee, consulting vacuum-cleaner instruction manuals, and unjamming office copiers."	NEG
United States	A.A. Dowd AV Club	"To watch the film is to get an institutional sense of how a powerful predator operates; what Green achieves is something like a blueprint of the inner workings of an empire"	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Kermode The Guardian	"Garner excels as a junior assistant to a predatory media mogul boss in Kitty Green’s powerfully understated #MeToo drama (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	John Serba Decider	"[It] is by no means an easy watch — but as a searing condemnation of morally corrupt institutions, it’s a quietly righteous rallying cry to burn it all down."	POS

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