‘Bad Apples’ Review: Saoirse Ronan Plays a Tired Teacher Battling a Difficult Student in a Sharp Dark Comedy With Shocking Twists

‘Bad Apples’ Review: Saoirse Ronan Kidnaps Her Worst Student in a Deliciously Dark Comedy About the Pressures of a Broken School System

Let’s be honest: Life is a lot better for everyone after Maria — or simply “Ms.,” as Saoirse Ronan’s character is known to the primary-age kids at the posh British school where she teaches — locks her most disruptive student in the basement of her house, chaining the boy to a wall with the help of a harness that she found on the internet by googling “how to live with an 800lb. gorilla.”  Before you judge the premise of Jonatan Etzler’s wickedly …

‘Bad Apples’ Review: Saoirse Ronan Plays a Tired Teacher Battling a Difficult Student in a Sharp Dark Comedy With Shocking Twists

Saoirse Ronan plays an exhausted teacher facing a difficult student in 'Bad Apples,' a shocking British black comedy from director Jonatan Etzler.

‘Bad Apples’ Review: Saoirse Ronan In Very Black Comedy About Teacher Who Holds Unruly 10-Year-Old Student Captive In Her Basement – Toronto Film Festival

Not knowing a thing about the new film Bad Apples, which is having its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, it took me awhile to realize “Oh wait, this is really a very, very dark comedy.” So once I got what director Jonathan Etzler and writer Jess O’ Kane were up to, I could […]