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Film

Too much photocopying but stick with it: The Assistant reviewed

2 May 2020

9:00 AM

2 May 2020

9:00 AM

The Assistant

Amazon Prime Video

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First, the latest digital film release: The Assistant, starring Julia Garner in a slowly, slowly, catchy, catchy tale that won’t grab you from the off — I kept thinking: is anything actually going to happen? — but you must stick with it, you must. This is a film of quiet, cumulative power, which has much to say about serial sexual predators in the Harvey Weinstein mould, and how they get away with it.

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