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Marvin Kirschenbaum
while the performances were good, the story was terrible
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Marcia Gee
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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Laura Rosas
Metacritic
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.
Chuck Bowen
Slant Magazine
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
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