The Apprentice's reviews
Media reviews
The Playlist
Abbasi manages to thread the lines between tabloid fodder and veiled endorsement with great skill.
The Hollywood Reporter
Some will argue that Stan\'s performance in the central role is a touch too likeable, but the actor does an excellent job, going beyond impersonation to capture the essence of the man. In a character study of a public figure both widely parodied and unwittingly self-parodying, Stan gives us a more nuanced take on what makes him tick.
The Telegraph
The main problem with Ali Abbasi\'s The Apprentice is that the film is a character study with very little character to study. ... Still, what the film lacks in revelatory insight into the Trump psyche, it makes up for in enticing context.
Indiewire
Clipped from the start and increasingly uncertain of its purpose as it fumbles toward the Trump we know, this origin story certainly isn\'t as painful to watch as the future that it portends has been to endure, but it\'s every bit as banal and unnecessary.
Screen Daily
By striving for realism, The Apprentice ends up dramatically flat, the recitation of Trump\'s most infamous incidents ... playing out perfunctorily.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote