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By Alison Willmore (681) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 25 Jan 2020

What makes the film such a spare but searingly insightful treatment of the issues at the core of Me Too is the way it refuses to separate its…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 25 Jan 2020

Instead of melodrama, the movie finds its traction in parsing out micro-aggressions and mood: a sort of devastating slow-drip portrait of the…

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By Candice Frederick (452) for TheWrap (3,203) on 25 Jan 2020

While the filmmaker rightly understands that shock value isn’t the only way to tell a visceral story, its central performance by Julia Garner…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 23 Jan 2020

Garner is perfectly cast, a pixie of steel…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 04 Sep 2019

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

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 04 Sep 2019

[Green has] made a powerful movie about the ways power enforces silence, even between assistants and other underlings—people convinced they…

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By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 04 Sep 2019

Clinical in nature and matter-of-fact (but still affecting), The Assistant is essentially a procedural about being a personal assistant to…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 04 Sep 2019

The central character never develops in an interesting way…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 04 Sep 2019

Exasperatingly low-key…

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