Working Woman
Arti Film | Release Date: March 29, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
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Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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11
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Negative:
0
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90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranApr 11, 2019
Working Woman is more than a feature that makes compelling drama out of workplace sexual harassment; it’s an excellent work by any standard, a subtle and insightful character-driven drama that will compel anyone who cares about the interplay of personalities on-screen. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloMar 27, 2019
The debate around sexual harassment is one many are having around the world, far beyond hashtags and press releases. Working Woman is a part of that global and cultural conversation, yet it never loses that personal focus of one woman’s experience. Read full review
88
Slant MagazinePat BrownMar 25, 2019
Michal Aviad’s film forcefully brings home a reality that many of us have been aware of only intellectually. Read full review
80
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergMar 28, 2019
Despite its surface-level placidity, the Israeli feature Working Woman unfolds like a psychological thriller — a procedural that, as it tightens its grip, captures how workplace sexual harassment slowly takes over one woman’s life. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterElizabeth KerrMar 25, 2019
The picture is a slow-burning but ultimately empowering drama that works despite a lack of the bigger, louder, more outwardly emotional moments it could have succumbed to. Read full review
80
VarietyDennis HarveyMar 25, 2019
This second narrative feature by Israeli documentarian Michal Aviad is a strong drama that eschews melodramatic contrivance, making its points via cool (yet sometimes squirm-inducing) observation. Read full review
80
Film ThreatAndy HowellMar 25, 2019
To its credit, Working Woman is laser-focused on its theme. There are no superfluous characters or side-plots. There’s no best friend to confide in, no hilarious sidekick. There’s just a woman who feels all alone like there’s no one she can trust, no one who will understand her. Read full review
75
Washington PostVanessa H. LarsonMay 13, 2019
This story of workplace abuse and its fallout could just as well take place in New York, Istanbul, Mumbai — or any other city. Orna is Everywoman. Like many other women in her shoes, she emerges scarred, but stronger and wiser. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrMay 8, 2019
Without stooping to the uselessness of style, Working Woman makes its points simply by staying with Orna as she proceeds through stages of shock, humiliation, self-loathing, self-censorship, all emotions her husband finds difficult to understand and which the Bennys of the world rely on. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternApr 11, 2019
Both performances are strong; Ms. Ben-Shlush is especially appealing in what might have been a clichéd role. If anything, Working Woman goes out of its way to play fair by making Orna insufficiently self-protective. All the same, she’s an innocent on the way to becoming a victim in an understated polemic that becomes an affecting drama. Read full review
70
TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanMar 26, 2019
Every moment indicates deep compassion for Orna, and anyone else who might be driven to see a multi-layered message movie for the #MeToo era. Read full review
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