In hypnotically trashy Trump biopic and other showstoppers, Cannes goes under the knife
by Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times
May 21, 2024
4 minutes
CANNES, France — No monster shambles into being fully formed. They're made, sometimes lovingly tended to, by our own worst impulses.
Shrewdly, "The Apprentice," a hypnotically trashy biopic detailing Donald Trump's rise to prominence in the ratty, Koch-era New York of the 1970s and '80s, requires no sympathy for the future president. That's a good thing, because this Trump — already a schlump with rage issues played by Sebastian Stan with jowly prosthetics — is, if not quite the worst of all Trumps, still a pretty awful one. He's the heartless rent collector who goes door to door in his father's Brooklyn slum buildings, dodging pots of boiling water flung by
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