1. REVIEW: “The Assistant” (2020) | - Keith & the Movies
May 1, 2020 · “The Assistant” may be low-key but its message is loud, clear and profoundly relevant. Kitty Green has created a timely, hard-hitting drama free ...
I had heard nothing but good things about Kitty Green’s feature film debut “The Assistant”. Unfortunately the COVID-19 outbreak cut short its theater run well before it made its w…
2. The Assistant movie review: the realities of being a girl
Apr 28, 2020 · A quietly brutal film that shows the dark underbelly of an industry -- of a world -- dominated by often predatory straight white men.
A quietly brutal film that shows the dark underbelly of an industry -- of a world -- dominated by often predatory straight white men. Could be an eye-opener on a larger scale... if only we listen.
3. The Assistant | Rotten Tomatoes
Led by a powerhouse performance from Julia Garner, The Assistant offers a withering critique of workplace harassment and systemic oppression.
Jane, a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, just landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. Her day is much like any other assistant -- making coffee, ordering lunch, arranging travel accommodations and taking phone messages. But as Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her workday, an accumulation of degradations against which she decides to take a stand.
4. Critics Don't Know Anything; Avoid 'The Assistant' at All Costs
Aug 15, 2020 · The Assistant is a series of vignettes very well enacted by a still-squandered Julia Garner. There's no inciting event, no connecting narrative.
A great actress and an important topic can’t change the structureless drag of The Assistant, a feature film that should have been a ten-minute short movie.
5. Review: The Assistant - Stephen David Miller
Feb 28, 2020 · The Assistant is primarily about power. About how an incentive structure that rewards extreme devotion can combine with an opaque, distributed decision-making ...
As Chris Matthews and Mike Godwin have both aptly demonstrated, Americans are obsessed with World War 2. It’s as evident in our political analogies …
6. The Assistant is a movie about more than Harvey Weinstein. It's ... - Vox
Jan 29, 2020 · The Assistant is a movie about more than Harvey Weinstein. It's about the system around him. Director Kitty Green on how she made the first great movie of the ...
Director Kitty Green on how she made the first great movie of the Me Too era.
7. The Assistant (Kitty Green, 2020) - criterionforum.org
Dec 9, 2019 · I have to say, I really liked this film. The film's restraint and very pure observational stance is part of why it works so well, but maybe ...
“Its always a bit stressful in the beginning. It gets easier”
8. The Assistant (2020) – Helpful - Movie Meister Reviews
Sep 2, 2020 · So, this review of The Assistant is going to have to touch on some difficult subject matter AKA we're talking about sexual harassment in the ...
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9. Sundance 2020 Review: “The Assistant” Explores the Crushing ...
Feb 6, 2020 · It's in such moments that The Assistant shines, silently condemning the cruelty to which we give a pass, in the belief that our turn in the ...
The Assistant (Kitty Green, 2019) 3 out of 4 stars. A bleak film about an even bleaker subject (released, in a bit of homonymous coincidence, by Bleecker Street Media, no less), Kitty Green’s The Assistant features Julia Garner (Ruth Langmore on Netflix’s Ozark) as a hapless cog in a very sharp wheel, spinning in all directions
10. 'The Assistant' Is Timeless—and All Too Timely - The Ringer
Apr 28, 2020 · Hitting VOD on Tuesday, Kitty Green's 2020 film about a low-level employee and her Weinstein-esque boss has much to say about the modern ...
Hitting VOD on Tuesday, Kitty Green’s 2020 film about a low-level employee and her Weinstein-esque boss has much to say about the modern workplace, but it won’t do the work for you
11. FYC: Matthew Macfadyen's one-scene wonder in The Assistant
Dec 30, 2020 · In The Assistant, Matthew Macfadyen is the key ingredient that makes the film's best scene so chilling.
In The Assistant, Matthew Macfadyen is the key ingredient that makes the film's best scene so chilling.
12. Would You Have Said Anything? The Chilling Power of “The Assistant”
Jan 31, 2020 · “The Assistant” is a drama of moral epistemology, in which the details that Jane perceives have an obvious meaning that is being overlooked, ...
The film is a story modelled on what has been widely reported to have gone on at the Weinstein Company under Harvey Weinstein.
13. The Assistant Movie Review | Common Sense Media
Parents need to know that The Assistant is a searingly honest indie workplace drama inspired by #MeToo-movement stories of men in power who use and abuse ...
Remarkable star performance makes #MeToo drama riveting. Read Common Sense Media's The Assistant review, age rating, and parents guide.
14. The Assistant is a subtle and suggestive film about everything ...
Sep 27, 2023 · Director Kitty Green takes us inside a very long day at a NYC film production office and examines what it means to be complicit in a post Me Too film.
Director Kitty Green takes us inside a very long day at a NYC film production office and examines what it means to be complicit in a post Me Too film that quietly says something if you're patient.
15. Review: 'The Assistant' a quiet film that sends a loud and clear message
Feb 13, 2020 · Bleecker Street, 2020. The problem is large, looming and mostly off-screen in "The Assistant," a mood-piece of a movie that shows what it must ...
The problem is large, looming and mostly off-screen in " The Assistant ," a mood-piece of a movie that shows what it must be like to exist under the shadow of powerful, sexual predators (think Harvey...
16. The Assistant (2019) - Movie Review : Alternate Ending
Oct 13, 2020 · All of this is very small and inward-looking and potent, and The Assistant in general plays things in an awfully subdued register: the score and ...
A narratively, stylistically draining portrait of the psychological toll of working underneath an abusive monster of a boss. Read the review!
17. Sundance 2020: The Assistant Review: Julia Garner impresses in ...
Jan 31, 2020 · It is important to remember that The Assistant takes place during an undisclosed time before the widespread allegations were made. The whole ...
'The Assistant' does so many things right, but still leaves the audience with questions.
18. 'The Assistant' is the #MeToo version of a monster movie - CNN
Jan 31, 2020 · Ultimately, the film exists to evoke a mood and a mindset, one that strips away the glamor associated with “Hollywood” to expose a system that ...
“The Assistant” is a monster movie, one where you never see the creature – an imperious entertainment mogul who terrorizes those who work for him, and preys on the young actresses that parade through the office.
19. The Assistant Movie Review — . - The Forgetful Film Critic
Jul 10, 2020 · The film can work as a sort of litmus test. For a viewer who isn't paying close attention, for one who doesn't understand how a toxic work ...
The film can work as a sort of litmus test. For a viewer who isn’t paying close attention, for one who doesn’t understand how a toxic work culture operates, one could think nothing that happens in the movie is all that disturbing. That’s the real horror of Green’s picture and what makes it so effect
20. A Slow-Paced Horror Story - The Assistant Review
Jun 10, 2020 · Because this film is intentionally slow, I was glued to the story and the character. I cared about what she was going to do next and worried ...
Critics loved it, but audiences hated it. Why?
21. 'The Assistant': When A Workplace's Silence Can't Be Broken - NPR
Jan 30, 2020 · Review: Silence Proves Difficult To Break In 'The Assistant' In this ... January 30, 20205:00 PM ET. By. Ella Taylor. Enlarge this image. Jane ...
In this "quietly shattering drama," a young woman (Julia Garner) learns that her new boss is a serial sexual predator; her efforts to call him out meet with indifference and hostility.
22. 'The Assistant' review: Julia Garner explores abuse at work
Jan 30, 2020 · “The Assistant” is less bombastic than you might expect, and that is all to the good. ... as yet another assistant. Fearful because of this ...
In 'The Assistant,' Julia Garner stars as a junior aide to a Harvey Weinstein-type executive, and faces indignity and abuse in the business world.
23. The Assistant - Movie Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes
A MeToo drama is designed as a statement, a narrative of conflict and comeuppance. But The Assistant is constructed as more of an answer. Full Review | Sep 1, ...
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