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Bad Apples review – Saoirse Ronan’s suffering teacher best thing about school horror-satire
AI EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Saoirse Ronan stars as a teacher dealing with a disruptive student in Jonatan Etzler's dark comedy adapted from a Swedish novel. Critics note that despite Ronan's strong performance, the film ultimately struggles to deliver sufficient humor or shock value.
WHY IT MATTERS
The film's reception highlights how strong lead performances can elevate material that critics find otherwise unpersuasive and heavy-handed.
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 enoughHere 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 uninteresting performance. Director Jonatan Etzler has adapted it with co-screenwriter Jess O’Kane from a Swedish novel by Rasmus Lindgren called De Oönskade, or The Unwanted, and is a f...
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