The 50 best films of 2020 in the UK: the full list
It’s number one time, and it’s a picture from the beginning of the year that nothing else has quite eclipsed for wit, thrills and sheer watchability
Top US films 2020
The 50 best films of 2020 in the US: No 7 – The Assistant
Kitty Green’s quietly devastating drama saw Julia Garner play a young assistant slowly realising she’s working for a sexual predator
Best films of 2020
The 50 best films of 2020 in the UK, No 8: The Assistant
Kitty Green’s suffocating portrait of workplace sexual abuse shifts the spotlight away from the Harvey Weinsteins and on to the culture that enables them
May 2020
Sleazy bosses, exploited barmaids: US cinema finally discovers the left behinds
Mark Kermode's film of the week
The Assistant review – eloquent sexual harassment drama
April 2020
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
The Assistant review – #MeToo drama offers unsettling study of day-to-day abuse
Lockdown culture
This week's best culture, at home – from Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet to 50 Irish monologues
February 2020
Harvey Weinstein: the books, films and TV shows sparked by the scandal
From journalists’ accounts to fictional dramas, the movie mogul’s fall has fueled a cultural moment
January 2020
'It makes people uncomfortable': inside the Weinstein-inspired thriller about complicity
Based on interviews with former employees, writer-director Kitty Green’s The Assistant looks at a toxic workplace through the eyes of a single young worker
