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

"The Assistant" is a stealth bomb of a movie: It barely makes a noise but it leaves a crater in your heart.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 7, 2021

Although the film addresses #MeToo, it's also a thoughtful study of power and complicity, as well as what people will do to get ahead in a cutthroat industry.

| Feb 7, 2021

...a meditation on the passing of time, the many faces of staying in place, and the pursuit of happier and healthier endeavors in the new year.

| Dec 30, 2020

The Assistant isn't about empowerment (that's a task for other filmmakers), but presents a cruel, unvarnished reality.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 11, 2020

There is a through-line in terms of theme, and Green has made only good choices here. The film is tautly constructed, able to be shot largely in one place, and with minimal staging and effects.

| Jun 10, 2020

A performance of few words but immense physical eloquence by Julia Garner anchors this impressively chilling #MeToo-era drama about workplace harassment and abuse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 3, 2020

Green's follow-up to the innovative crime documentary Casting JonBenet is elegant, gripping and minimalist. ... Julia Garner is terrific.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2020

A stirring, sober examination of an ongoing injustice, The Assistant speaks to women whose discomfort is ignored, and bravely says that they matter, their feelings have been noticed. Now is the time for us to act on them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2020

It's one of the best, most gripping, and smartest films of 2020.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 30, 2020

[Kitty] Green's approach to stories - finding larger truths rather than focusing on the most sensational aspects - vaults The Assistant into extraordinary territory.

| Apr 30, 2020

[Kitty] Green's masterstroke is to keep Jane's boss hidden from view, showing only the damage he causes and the detritus he leaves behind.

| Apr 30, 2020

Garner is superb at conveying her character's increasing concern, degradation and inner conflict.

| Apr 30, 2020

Kitty Green manages a tour de force without resorting to reductive expositional devices.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 30, 2020

After a while, the question becomes not just what kind of industry allowed this to happen, but how many people still working in it now looked the other way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2020

The Assistant is a top-notch American movie on the verge of becoming collateral damage in an endless spring that's rewiring our collective viewing habits.

| Apr 29, 2020

Required viewing for every person in a job with an in-built power structure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2020

The whole point of Green's film is the routine, submerged, and invisible quality of its horrors: you can readily believe Tuesday might be even worse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 25, 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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 24, 2020