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In hypnotically trashy Trump biopic and other showstoppers, Cannes goes under the knife

Maria Bakalova, Ali Abbasi and Sebastian Stan attend the premiere of' The Apprentice' during the 77th Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, on May 20, 2024.

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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