The Assistant

2020 • 87 minutes

About this movie

Jane (Julia Garner) is a recent college graduate, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful movie mogul. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the questionable behaviour of her boss toward her female peers. She decides to take a stand, only to discover the true insidious nature of the system into which she has entered.

Ratings and reviews

Having seen the other lowball reviews I thought it can’t be that bad so went for it and paid to watch the movie. Words cannot describe just how bad this movie is. I was surprised when it ended, not because something had just happened but because I’d just wasted 90 minutes of my life watching a PA doing, well what a PA does, work!! If you want to watch something entertaining chose something else and save yourself time and money.

This is one of the worst films I have ever seen. I gave it the benefit of doubt when it first started but it just never developed. This film could have been so much more, but was slow and ponderous, nothing ever happened of any real distinction throughout out the film. Very poor. I have to give it a star to post it, really would not like to.

Don't bother. Most of the film feels like the opening credits, lots of shots of a PA doing what most PAs do. It's difficult to imagine a workplace where literally everyone has no basic humanity and there's such a lack of enjoying anything, but it makes for a less believable version of something that is already very boring.