What I found most impressive about Ali Abbasi's The Apprentice, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival to rapturous applause but has since struggled to find distribution, is that it made me feel empathy for Donald Trump and the mentor who shaped him, the notorious lawyer and 'œfixer' Roy Cohn. It helped me past my own long-simmering disgust with Trump and recognize him as a fellow human being. A flawed human being'”sure. A morally compromised human being'”yup. And absolutely a human being whose ambitions ultimately led him into a world in which nothing mattered other than his own ... Read More