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• [New] | Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
  • Excerpt: What you want from a film like VFW – the kills, the gore, the style, it totally delivers without wasting an ounce of your time, but but one element the film surprisingly nails is the dynamic between the characters, and how they connect with us.
• Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
  • Excerpt: Satisfyingly bloody and wickedly funny.
• Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
  • Excerpt: Joe Begos’ VFW feels like it crawled out of a grimy, urine-soaked 1980s gutter. And I mean that in the best possible way.
• Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
  • Excerpt: Marry that carnage with performances hinged upon authenticity specifically because of what kind of film this is rather than despite it and you’re in for an entertaining treat.
• [New] | Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Reviews
  • Excerpt: The gory retro exploitation film is just plain moronic.

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• [New] | Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: It is telling that an animation director…was attached to this property as its star, Buck, rarely fools the eye into believing that one is watching a real dog… this “The Call of the Wild” works well enough as the kid-friendly version.
• [New] | MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
  • Excerpt: An old-fashioned kiddie adventure, sweetly earnest, equal parts scary, funny, exciting, sad, and happy, with only a bit of uncanny valley in its CGI doggo star. Definitely had something in my eye.
• [New] | Eddie Pasa @ Gunaxin
  • Excerpt: By not making Buck – a computer-animated dog – a cutesy ham with a celebrity voiceover, the film pushes us out of our Disneyfied comfort zone and forces us to accept that it is truly Buck’s story. It is in this endeavor that The Call of the Wild deserves to be lauded.

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• [New] | Sarah Boslaugh @ TheArtsSTL
  • Excerpt: It takes a village to protect a predator.
• Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: One of the smart things about Green’s screenplay and direction is its quiet subtlety. There is no one big moment here, nor an outright smoking gun, instead a steady build of small injustices…
• Candice Frederick @ The Wrap
• Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
  • Excerpt: ‘The Assistant’ is a real-life horror docudrama portraying a young woman made to feel helpless to stop the daily abuses of power she witnesses.
• Charlie Juhl @
  • Excerpt: The Assistant stares at a recent college grad’s first real-world moral dilemma – what will you do when your black and white ethics lessons confront the gray areas of innuendo, the behavior of powerful men, and the inevitability of personal consequences should you challenge the system.
• Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
  • Excerpt: Green wants us to experience the silent prison of knowing the truth and being helpless against it. A palpable, tense drama exists beyond the mundane day-to-day of all victims.
• Frank Ochieng @ The Critical Movie Critics
  • Excerpt: Solidly telling in its methodical truth, Green’s film is unassumingly dazzling in its low-key observations. The Assistant is impressively potent without the overstated exclamation of acrimony.
• [New] | Rene Sanchez @ Cine Sin Fronteras [Spanish]
  • Excerpt: The Assistant es todo lo que Bombshell pretendía ser, pero sin la necesidad de recurrir a un gran reparto, a la magia del maquillaje o a un tono ligero para abordar una temática sumamente oportuna y sensible. Una mirada aséptica a la cultura tóxica que afecta al mundo laboral, y que encubre los abusos y las conductas inapropiadas de quienes se encuentran en una posición de poder.