Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong in The Apprentice

Whether or not you are capable of finding any sympathy for Donald Trump is between you and Ali Abbasi’s new film, The Apprentice. Starring Sebastian Stan as a young Donald just making a name for himself in the world of 1970s New York real estate, The Apprentice is a film that takes a surprisingly even-handed look at the forces that shaped Trump. The film begins in the late Seventies, with Donald collecting rents in his father’s run-down apartment complex in Coney Island, where tenants throw boiling water at him and can barely muster up rents. Donald’s dad, Fred (Martin Donovan), is being sued for racial discrimination by the federal government, which opens the door for attorney Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong) to make his mark on status-obsessed Donald.  ...Full Story