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By Kim Hughes (164) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 06 Feb 2020

A compact drama with outsize emotional heft, The Assistant is propelled as much by what it doesn’t show as what it does…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 06 Feb 2020

No blood is shed. No bodies turn up. And yet The Assistant is one seriously chilling monster movie…

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By Sarah Hagi (23) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 06 Feb 2020

The film succeeds in showing how men with power can openly do essentially whatever they want as long as their company is successful, but it…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 05 Feb 2020

Besides being the best American film of our new year, writer-director Kitty Green’s drama The Assistant confounds expectations and has the…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 05 Feb 2020

Set over the course of a single, very long day, The Assistant derives almost all its quiet power from Garner, on whose face we see confusion…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 05 Feb 2020

The Assistant isn’t a particularly enjoyable film, but its message and quiet power linger for days…

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By Chrism1979 (10) on 03 Feb 2020

It wasn't a bad movie. But it wasn't really a good movie either…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 01 Feb 2020

Green has crafted a hermetic, office-bound world so ambiguous that the moments when she reveals its dynamics directly sometimes come off as…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 01 Feb 2020

The Assistant is inspired by potentially scandalous material but subverts expectations, asking the audience to consider the broader societal…

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By Sheila O'malley (474) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 31 Jan 2020

The Assistant, a very good film, is especially good on power dynamics…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 31 Jan 2020

The movie still works, if somewhat marginally, in portraying the culture that allowed such behavior to fester, the mix of fear and going along,…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 30 Jan 2020

Ms. Garner transcends the inherent limits of her role to convey ineffable tenderness and wordless ferocity in a movie that’s bigger than it seems…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 30 Jan 2020

Treating an incendiary issue in an austere, minimalist manner has turned The Assistant into an arresting independent drama…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 30 Jan 2020

Unfolding over one acutely distressing workday, The Assistant is less a #MeToo story than a painstaking examination of the way individual slights…

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By Jocelyn Noveck (253) for The Associated Press (882) on 30 Jan 2020

The expressive Garner does a lot with a little. She has no big speeches, no tantrums, no floods of tears. It’s the ultimate unshowy part…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 29 Jan 2020

Green’s slow-burn style might not spell box-office windfall in a cinema era of short attention spans, but her artistry is indisputable…

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By Dan Mecca (208) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 29 Jan 2020

Garner is effective, the camera rarely losing focus of her…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 29 Jan 2020

Never seen, but often heard bellowing profanities from the other end of Jane’s desktop landline, the boss and his eyebrow-raising closed…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 29 Jan 2020

Green’s direction and dramatic sensibility are blunt, but the film’s laboratory-like microcosm of scenarios pointedly similar to recent…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Jan 2020

The Assistant is more of a spartan procedural, its narrative a methodical accounting of one day—typical in incident, atypical in dawning…

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