Crucially, however, the movie never falls into the trap of making Simmons its true subject or raison d’être. They also speak to the conflicting priorities at play when a document of abuse must also double as a creative and commercial enterprise. AdvertisementInsofar as many of those stories have already been published elsewhere, the strengths of “On the Record” are not primarily those of an exposé. In one of the most wrenching moments, Dixon explains why it took her decades to go on the record: “I took it for the team. Unlike the Oscar-nominated “Bombshell,” a glossier, clumsier dramatization of workplace sexual harassment, “The Assistant” never shows us the acts of abuse and assault directly; we’re limited strictly to Jane’s vantage.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 26, 2020 16:18 UTC