Instead, it is about the systems in place that have allowed his behavior to go on for so long. But this is not a story about triumph over the evil that men like Weinstein perpetrate. A meeting with an actress extends late into the night. A new, very pretty woman arrives from Idaho with no experience and is put up in a fancy hotel. Jane's unseen boss is quite evidently a stand-in for Harvey Weinstein, and over the course of her otherwise monotonous day, Jane starts to realize something is amiss. But director Kitty Green has made a silent scream of a film, which is so quietly unsettling it becomes hard to shake. A young woman (played by Ozark 's Julia Garner)-whose name is apparently Jane, although it's never said in the movie-goes to work at the office of a high-powered Hollywood executive before the crack of dawn and heads home long after the sun has set. The understated tone of the movie quietly creates an almost horror-like atmosphere as even a meeting between Jane and the company's head of HR (Matthew Macfadyen, best known as Tom on Succession) becomes a terrifying display of how powerless she is to fight against a system built to protect those in power.Nothing much happens in The Assistant. Even in the most mundane moments of her job, Jane experiences subtle yet potent sexism as persistent rumors float around the office about her unnamed and unseen boss using his position of power to sleep with young women.

The Assistant manages to do so by delivering a master class in 'show, don't tell,' as viewers get a front row seat into the devastating effects of systemic oppression women face in the workplace through the eyes of Jane (Julia Garner), a young and ambitious junior assistant working at a production company in New York. Years deep into the #MeToo movement, the entertainment industry is still figuring out how to effectively hold a mirror up to itself and tell stories about the pervasive culture of sexual harassment onscreen.

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