A black comedy that’s more of a charcoal than a true, pitch-dark Vantablack, Bad Apples stars Saoirse Ronan as an exhausted teacher working in a typically underfunded British elementary school, who resorts to desperate, foolish measures to deal with a difficult student (Eddie Waller, a real discovery in his first-ever role). While Ronan, in fine comic form here, has been acting since she was a kid herself, most of the above-the-line staff are relative newcomers. That includes Swedish sophomore director Jonatan Etzler ( One More Time ) making his first English-language feature, and screenwriter Jess O’Kane, adapting Swedish novel De Oonsade by Rasmus Lindgren.

A black comedy that’s more of a charcoal than a true, pitch-dark Vantablack, Bad Apples stars Saoirse Ronan as an exhau

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