The Assistant
By Andrew Plimpton December 23, 2020
Office dynamics can be absolute hell.
Sienna Miller has something of an Eternal Sunshine–inspired out-of-body experience—quite literally—after a car accident.
What do you get when you combine three stars, a witty screen treatment, and an ever-adventurous Oscar-winning director?
A teenage girl runs away from foster homes to Los Angeles’s Skid Row, where she tends to her homeless father in this gritty drama.
The story of a toxic bromance between a kind and reliable pushover and an impulsive, angry, and selfish narcissist.
A grim tale of a toxic workplace and corporate cover-ups.
In terms of surface-level crudeness, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm delivers some lighthearted laughs in a time when we need it most.
One of the better and more convincing love stories to recently emerge that also succeeds where the majority of college-set films fail.
Though disaster films might feel a little too real right now, this one is on the opposite end of the spectrum from Contagion.