The Assistant
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Synopsis
“The Assistant” follows one day in the life of Jane (Julia Garner), a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. Her day is much like any other assistant’s – making coffee, changing the paper in the copy machine, ordering lunch, arranging travel, taking phone messages, onboarding a new hire. But as Jane follows her daily routine, she, and we, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her work day, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover the true depth of the system into which she has entered.
Cast
- Julia Garner
- Matthew Macfayden
- Makenzie Leigh
- Juliana Canfield
- Lou Martini
- Noah Robbins
- Dagmara Dominczyk
- Kristine Froseth
- Alexander Chaplin
- Clara Wong
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Verified Review
Took forever for the movie to have a tiny bit of suspense just to lead back to being slow and boring...
MG
Marcia G
Verified Review
while the performances were good, the story was terrible
MK
Marvin K
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
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