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The Most Underrated Movies of 2020 (So Far)
THE ASSISTANT Release date: January 31 Director: Kitty Green ( Casting JonBenet ) Cast: Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen, Kristine Froseeth Why it's worth seeing: Nothing much happens in The Assistant . 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. She performs menial tasks. She takes calls. When the day is over, long after the sun is set, she heads home. But Green has made a silent scream of a film, which is so quietly unsettling it becomes hard to shake. Of course, you're probably aware of some version of this story. 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. There's an earring on the carpet. A new, very pretty woman arrives from Idaho with no experience and...
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