Not knowing a thing about the new film, Bad Apples which is having its World Premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, it took me a while 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 more comfortably go with a premise that is so out there in terms of credibility I could relax and actually laugh at the absurdity of it all.

It all starts innocently enough, especially if you’ve seen the number of school-based movies as I have, so many of them highlighted with warlike confrontations between teacher and student(s) (ie Blackboard Jungle, Up The Down Staircase, Lean On Me, etc etc). Thus when this well-meaning educator, Marie ( Saoirse Ronan ) attempts to keep her class under cont

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