‘The Apprentice’ review: A decent Trump biopic that’s for nobody

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controversial film “The Apprentice,” a drama about Trump’s rise as a New York real estate tycoon in the late 1970s alongside his cutthroat lawyer and mentor Roy Cohn and wife Ivana.Since May, the film has been treating the festival circuit like swing states, hoping to gain ground.It premiered at Cannes in the spring and then struggled to find American distribution.

Three guesses why. Last week, it played Telluride, and on Thursday night, there was a surprise private screening in Toronto, where I saw it.I can now say the movie has something for everybody — to be angry about.The left will be peeved that Trump, played by Sebastian Stan, is not sufficiently demonized.

Abbasi’s reasonably entertaining movie is a mostly sympathetic portrayal of a young man trying to make his way in the tough New York business world.He’s unfairly mocked — including by Mayor Ed Koch (Ian D.

Clark) — when he takes a risk on the opulent Trump Tower at a time when no one was betting on messy Midtown or, for that matter, the crime-infested city.