There is a somewhat justified aversion in the United States to understanding Donald Trump. Unlike our morbid fascination with understanding what makes serial killers tick, most Americans even the ones who elected Trump as President in 2016 aren’t too interested in learning how and why a New York real estate nepo baby became the infamous narcissist and opportunistic tyrant now running for a second term. The Apprentice, from Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbassi (Border, Holy Spider), answers that question by way of examining Trump’s relationship with New York prosecutor Roy Cohn, the man who made the monster.