In 'The Assistant,' Julia Garner stars as a junior aide to a Harvey Weinstein-type executive, and faces indignity and abuse in the business world.
stands the film in good stead here. Working with cinematographer Michael Latham, her lean, efficient, “just the facts, ma’am” style enhances the core of verisimilitude that is one of “The Assistant’s” strengths., an Emmy winner for “Ozark,” are much needed.
Though still a relative newcomer after five weeks on the job, Jane feels the full brunt of the psychological abuse that seems to be the office’s modus operandi. Worst of all is the chairman, a verbally abusive law unto himself, who metes out savage attacks should Jane happen to say the wrong thing as she negotiates the byzantine complications of the inevitably angry people who want to get her boss on the phone.
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