The Assistant - Reviews

...the movie finds its traction in parsing out micro-aggressions and mood: a sort of devastating slow-drip portrait of the power structures that allowed a man like Weinstein to happen...

...a very good film, is especially good on power dynamics.

A quiet work with major ambitions, “The Assistant” is a significant cultural statement in cinematic form.

It is a brilliant study of what day-by-day, moment-by-moment abuse looks like.

Julia Garner excels as a junior assistant to a predatory media mogul boss in Kitty Green’s powerfully understated #MeToo drama.

The monster lurking in the corner office.

...is strongest in its silences, entirely in control of a subtext that screams without making a sound.

Making her feature debut after directing a couple of documentaries, Kitty Green sustains the story’s pressure-cooker feel throughout.

...a piercing look at how women in the entertainment industry witness and experience sexual coercion and harassment.

…powerful drama.

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...en urovækkende og tidssvarende film om Metoo og det moderne arbejdsmarked.

Julia Garner bærer filmen, når hun gang på gang sluger Janes ydmygelser og moralske skrupler med tydelige synkebevægelser.