From Alice favourite Ali Abbasi (Border; Holy Spider) and starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong (Succession) and Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), The Apprentice is a crime drama examining Trump’s career as a real estate businessman in New York in the 1970s and 1980s.
Dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.
Entertainment Weekly – The Apprentice encapsulates the American Dream, revealing all the ways in which it can be subverted into a nightmare. (full review here)
BBC – With Sebastian Stan as the young Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as his notoriously vicious lawyer mentor Roy Cohn, The Apprentice is part “compellingly cynical buddy movie”, part conventional biopic. (full review here)
IGN – Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice is entertaining nonetheless as a stylistically tongue-in-cheek chronicle of Donald Trump’s life in the 1970s and ‘80s, condensed to a compact two hours. – (full review here)
