The Apprentice – 8

A remarkable, riveting portrait of New York City in the ’70s as a set for the young Donald Trump and his mentor, Roy Cohn. The acting by Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan was a step beyond perfect, and the way they portrayed the rise of Trump and fall of Cohn as intersecting axes was breathtaking. Some of the story, such as Cohn’s adoption of Trump and his bumbling business efforts, would have seemed implausible if we didn’t know they actually happened. The seeds of Trump today were all planted in director Ali Abbasi’s young Trump, but it wasn’t the scary foreshadowing that made the movie or remained in the mind’s eye. It was the face of Jeremy Strong.