This film is about a system.

Ali Abbasi’s response to a potential lawsuit from Trump: “I’m willing to screen The Apprentice for him. This film is not actually about Donald Trump. It’s about a system and how it works, how it is built, and how power flows within it.”

Critiques of The Apprentice Movie: Ruthless Sympathy for Trump

According to Cinemadrame, a critic from The Guardian gave the film a two-star rating, saying: “Ali Abbasi has previously shown us remarkable monsters in Holy Spider and Border, but the monstrous aspect in this film seems almost sentimental, and a cartoonish copy of the numerous humorous takes on Trump and the prophetic echoes of his political future.”