Ali Abbasi (director). The Apprentice . 2024. Emerging from the Directors Guild of America Theater after the New York premiere of Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice , I looked up at two of the towers that make up Billionaire’s Row, a stretch of eight super-luxury, super-thin, supertall skyscrapers clustered on and around West 57th Street. Immediately across the street was the newest addition to the posse, 111 West 57th, a towering monument to waste that’s 1,438 feet tall but contains just sixty condos. A few feet to the west is One 57, the tower that started the trend, standing a comparatively diminutive 1,005 feet and made up of ninety-two condos and the flagship outpost of the Hyatt hotel chain.…