Reviews‘The Assistant’ is Julia Garner in a Weinstein-esque nightmarePosted on January 29, 2020 The mood of “The Assistant,” with its sparse soundtrack of copier machines, phones and dinging elevators, is deceptively banal. Yet I’ll bet any woman who’s served in a similar entry-level position will feel a depressing (if not rage-inducing) solidarity with Julia Garner’s downtrodden Jane.