The Assistant's reviews
Media reviews
Roger Ebert
"'The Assistant', a very good film, is especially good on power dynamics...It's riveting".
The Guardian
"A claustrophobic, intimately unsettling movie...It is a sombre, realist study of what day-by-day, moment-by-moment abuse actually looks like".
Rolling Stone
"Green?s slow-burn style might not spell box-office windfall in a cinema era of short attention spans, but her artistry is indisputable...Together, Garner and Green have built a potent provocation that stands as a defining snapshot of the MeToo era".
Variety
"An exasperatingly low-key look at gender dynamics in the workplace... Ideally, 'The Assistant' will get people talking. The world needs movies like this, but it needs for them to be dynamic, dramatic and more empowering overall".
Indiewire
"'The Assistant' adopts such a gradual pace that it sometimes works against the stunning performance at its center, but there?s no doubting the hypnotic power of a movie that digs inside Weinstein?s harrowing reign and observes the mechanics that allowed it to last so long. A quiet work with major ambitions, 'The Assistant' is a significant cultural statement in cinematic form".