Bonus Review: The Apprentice

An American Horror Story

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INTRODUCTION

This is a quick review of the newly released film The Apprentice. Keep in mind this is but one of the many movies I watch every year, and that whatever initial grade I come up for this film could change for better or worse with time. To better keep up to date with both my thoughts on other movies and if my feelings on this film changed, follow me on Letterboxd.

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THE PLOT

Via Letterboxd: A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in seventies New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump that we know of today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé - someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

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QUICK REVIEW

In 2022, Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider stood out as one of the better foreign-language films I saw that year. It depicted a serial killer targeting sex workers, deluded into thinking he was purging “sinners” from society. Now, Abbasi has taken on an origin story for one of the most cruel and evil figures to ever occupy the White House - Donald Trump.