the film maintains an intriguing and well-managed tension; "The Assistant" stands as an insightful, if after-the-fact look at long-tolerated behavior. It's a reminder of how things were until very, very recently
Provocative and challenging, "The Assistant" might be too muted and remote for some audiences, but it's filmed with ballsy, patient, and unsentimental filmmaking choices and features another exceptional turn from Julia Garner
Kitty Green's urgent real-time thriller; Best appreciated as an experimental narrative about workplace oppression, it's a fascinating illustration of how the worst abuses can remain hidden even from those closest to the lion's den
Kitty Green's small, eerily effective "The Assistant", and Julia Garner's wonderfully tense, terse performance; a powerful movie about the ways power enforces silence, even between assistants and other underlings
it's slow, painful going; Instead of melodrama, the movie finds its traction in parsing out micro-aggressions and mood: a sort of devastating slow-drip portrait of the power structures that allowed a man like Harvey Weinstein to happen
a harrowing tale of a sexual predator protected by power and the cowed people around him; this understated film builds into a gut punch that's more painful than anything in the superficial, recent Roger Ailes expose 'Bombshell'
by Tomris Laffly [Time Out London ]
