The Apprentice doesn't craft its tale with subtlety, but what exactly is the point of delicacy in a world where the rise of Donald Trump has destroyed the usefulness of subtlety, or really any kind of satire?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2025

A portrait of a weak man, humorless and friendless, desperate to be liked, desperate to be seen as someone who *matters*. Sebastian Stan’s brilliantly disgusting Trump is horrifically riveting.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 13, 2025

Despite having a lot to say about the past and present of American politics, the film never sacrifices entertainment for moralising. The Apprentice is a blast from start to finish, punctuated with some really emotional moments.

| Feb 11, 2025

In creating sympathetic portraits of Trump and Cohn, The Apprentice can only become, by the end, a Hollywood biopic, with the oppressive blandness of the genre touched up as usual with movie-filtered period detail.

| Jan 15, 2025

The Apprentice won’t appeal to all and it doesn’t necessarily tell us anything we didn’t already know about Trump. It’s an engrossing character study of a man who took the opportunity to become the worst possible version of himself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2024

Despite the fictionalized layer that exaggerates some facts, it's a biopic about Donald Trump that never fails to be entertaining when it delivers its plot about ambition, business and the corrupting power of the American dream. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 15, 2024

With all the shoulder-padded glamour of Wall Street America, this is an origin story that doesn’t shy away from the darker sides of Trump's personality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2024

certainly reinforces the perception that Trump is an awful person, but it also dramatizes in a humane and meaningful way how he got there

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 22, 2024

The Apprentice is an analysis of the character that embodies the origins of Trump's narcissism, his lack of affection, and his disloyalty, leaving us perplexed as we wonder how such a person could gain access to power again. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 19, 2024

This biopic, penned by journalist and author Gabriel Sherman, employs artful dramatization to delve into the dark, tension-filled world of political intrigue.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 19, 2024

A sensational performance by Jeremy Strong ("The Big Short") as the infamous lawyer, fixer and political hit man Roy Cohn, highlights this searing biographical drama about the rise of Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan) in New York City in the 1970s and 80s.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 18, 2024

With its drawbacks, 'The Apprentice' is a film too interesting to be reduced to its possible opportunism for being released now. (Full review in spanish)

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 15, 2024

Uneven yet captivating. Stan and Strong shine in this biographical story of greed and power. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 14, 2024

Like him or not, Donald Trump is a force to be reckoned with, though I think I can say with a great deal of certainty that he will not be a fan of “The Apprentice.”

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 10, 2024

Because seeing someone harden into stone will never be as interesting as watching that rock crumble. That's what Strong delivers.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 8, 2024

In his biopic of Donald Trump, director Ali Abbasi manages to show how the egg of the Trumpist snake was hatched, humanizing the character without caricaturing or justifying him.[Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 7, 2024

In some ways, Ali Abassi returns to his horror film roots, exploring a personality with infinite power in a movie that creates a monster following genre conventions. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 6, 2024

"If Sebastian Stan isn’t nominated for an Oscar, I’ll lose faith in the Academy...again".

| Original Score: 4.5 | Nov 5, 2024

As irate as The Apprentice made the real Donald Trump, it’s a little surprising that it doesn’t make a meaner punch.

| Nov 5, 2024

Around the halfway point, The Apprentice takes a jarring turn and transitions from a darkly comedic character study into a deeply unsettling horror film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2024