Atom User Reviews for The Assistant

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#boring
#snoozefest
#slow

Took forever for the movie to have a tiny bit of suspense just to lead back to being slow and boring...

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Marcia G
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#slow

while the performances were good, the story was terrible

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Marvin K
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Metacritic

75
Feb 24, 2020

With The Assistant, writer-director Kitty Green offers a top-to-bottom portrait of incremental dehumanization, and, on its terms, the film is aesthetically, tonally immaculate.

Metacritic review by Chuck Bowen
Chuck Bowen
Slant Magazine
70
Feb 1, 2020

The Assistant is inspired by potentially scandalous material but subverts expectations, asking the audience to consider the broader societal implications of the crime.

Tim Grierson
Screen Daily
75
Jan 30, 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. If there is a word to describe Jane, it is small. Garner seems to shrink as the day goes on.

Jocelyn Noveck
The Associated Press