Bad Apples Review: 'Not Much for Saoirse Ronan to Sink Her Teeth Into'
The review says the film turns a teacher’s fear of losing her job into a kidnapping plot, but its satire and black comedy feel uneven.
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Fast, cheerful and smart when Swede Jonatan Etzler makes a film about a troublemaker. Saoirse Ronan plays the lead role in "Bad apples" that Sofia Olsson loves.
Bad Apples review: 'not much for Saoirse Ronan to sink her teeth into'
A bolder version of Bad Apples might have set out to subvert the inspirational teacher trope, but all we get instead are tiresome comic scenarios with no consequences, writes Alistair Harkness
Saoirse Ronan plays an exhausted teacher who kidnaps her student in Swede Jonatan Etzler's well-balanced comedy-drama "Bad Apples".
Bad Apples review – Saoirse Ronan’s suffering teacher best thing about school horror-satire
Ronan plays a teacher who finds a way to deal with a disruptive pupil in Jonatan Etzler’s implausible film, but it’s not shocking or funny enough Here is a strange, heavy-handed and unpersuasive black comedy which owes what success it has to the star-power of its lead, Saoirse Ronan, who is incapable of giving an…
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