Hopefully that can change now that it’s streaming. While The Assistant received great reviews nearly across the board, the film didn’t get much of a theatrical release (and made just $1 million). Writer/director Kitty Green ( Casting JonBenét) trusts her audience to read between the lines and understand that this is a timely take on the Harvey Weinsteins of Hollywood.
Garner’s performance, coupled with the film’s understated approach to the film industry’s rampant objectification and outright abuse of women, are what make The Assistant so effective. While the bulk of her day involves monotonous tasks like answering phones and replenishing the refrigerator’s water supply, it’s within these mundanities that Jane-and the audience-begin to notice small details around the office that hint that not everything going on behind closed doors is appropriate. Ozark star Julia Garner delivers a brilliantly subtle performance as Jane, a recently hired assistant to a major Hollywood power player. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. With that in mind, here's everything you need to catch up on before starting your next 20 years of watching movies. The big question, of course, is: What constitutes a movie being “underrated”? For the purposes of this list, we looked at movies that tanked at the box office (even if they earned a better reputation once they were available on video-on-demand), films that seemed to invite a number of negative reviews and were worth giving a second chance, and movies that were well-reviewed by both critics and viewers, but just never seemed to find an audience. (We’ve included where you can get those that are streaming below.) They’re not all streaming on the major networks, but they can be rented from Amazon, Apple TV+, or YouTube. And if you want to look back even further (as any serious cineaste should), you’ll see that there are lots of movies that you’ve probably overlooked in the past 20 years that are definitely worth revisiting. That said, 2020 hasn’t been a total loss for great movies-as long as you know where to look.
Even if you wanted to, it might be hard to name 10 great films that came out this year off the top of your head.
Like so many other things in 2020, Hollywood is in the midst of a sea change.
Though awards season is already upon us, it certainly doesn’t feel that way.
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