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Film Review - The Apprentice

Film Review - The Apprentice

Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong give strong performances in Ali Abassi's grubby drama about dubious lawyer Roy Cohn mentoring Donald Trump

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Oct 23, 2024
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Inevitably, The Apprentice — about Donald Trump being mentored by unscrupulous lawyer Roy Cohn in the 1970s and 1980s — has been applauded and condemned by different sides of the US political aisle. Claims and counterclaims (as summarised by Mark Kermode in his review here) debate the factual veracity of event…

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