YMMV / The Assistant

• Complete Monster: "The Boss" is Jane's unseen, but menacing and cruel, employer. A studio executive who uses his position to take advantage of many women via the Casting Couch and other nefarious means of sexual misconduct, the Boss also verbally and psychologically abuses his wife, his employees, and Jane herself for the slightest of reasons. A predator and bully who uses every advantage he is afforded to hurt others just because he can, the Boss is portrayed as the ultimate kind of evil in the filmmaking industry.
• Critical Dissonance: A major one. On Rotten Tomatoes, due to the film's extreme minimalism, it was a hit with critics at an impressive 92% but a bomb with audiences at a miserable 25%.