Tension is built by having the camera slowly close in on Garner’s face, and she manages to convey so much with the simple action of biting her lip or closing her eyes. This isn’t a film with a big showy off performance...

| Original Score: A | Jul 31, 2024

The Assistant is also relatable anyone who has ever had a job description vague enough to become the office task dumpster...

| Jun 7, 2024

The Assistant is an absolute must-watch...

| Feb 23, 2024

Sexual harassment in the workplace (in this case, a production company) is not shown explicitly. Rather, it is assessed through the anxieties of one young woman who works there, played brilliantly by Julia Garner.

| May 2, 2023

Writer-director Kitty Green expertly crafts a culture of fear that permeates every inch of the frame... and holds up a damning mirror to the film industry in this impressive and incendiary feature.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 11, 2022

The film communicates oppressions that stem out of a capitalist structure that enslaves people with the promise of a better future, even though this future is lateral to ensure permanence... [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 18, 2022

An accomplished fiction debut for doco-maker Kitty Green.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2022

“The Assistant” may be low-key, but its message is loud, clear, and profoundly relevant. Kitty Green has created a timely, hard-hitting drama free of Hollywood gloss and anchored in the real-world experiences too many women are forced to endure.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

The definitive film of the Time’s Up/#MeToo movement so far.

| Aug 17, 2022

[Kitty Green] reveals the office’s power structure through a detailed and horribly convincing account of its workings.

| Aug 15, 2022

Green’s direction is methodical but incredibly effective at showing the cumulative actions that lead to willful ignorance.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 5, 2022

The film's sharp, thoughtfully composed screenplay does not need to dwell on specifics; its portrait is not of Weinstein directly, but the psychological implications that come with abuses of power.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

The only work of fiction made thus far about this issue that has managed to address it with the complexity it deserves. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 26, 2021

Since "Ozark" we've witnessed the incredible power of Julia Garner, but this is her tour de force. A movie that generates such anger in the terror of normalizing abuse.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 30, 2021

A movie that unfolds in a chilling ethical vacuum that says more about the #MeToo movement than you wish to know.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 24, 2021

The predator of the film is never seen, but holds power over the lead character like a malevolent dictator. The perfect look at current operations and abuses in the film indistry.

| Sep 13, 2021

A MeToo drama is designed as a statement, a narrative of conflict and comeuppance. But The Assistant is constructed as more of an answer.

| Sep 1, 2021

An overworked and likely emotionally abused assistant going about a full day of work, beginning with her trip into the office and ceasing on her exit.

| Original Score: 84/100 | Aug 19, 2021

Julia Garner's performance in The Assistant is a masterful showcase of quiet containment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2021

A hum-drum office that contains all that is sinister in the world within its walls, anchored by one, specific scene of sharp dialogue where plenty is said, without actually being said. Perfect.

| Apr 13, 2021