‘Bad Apples’ Review: Saoirse Ronan Schools Us in Daring, Darkly Funny Satirical Thriller

What will we accept for a false harmony? Why is it that we can so easily compartmentalize cruel acts, big and small, for the supposed greater good of our communities? What absurd lies will we have to tell ourselves to justify our cruelty, and what may we forever lose of our humanity as a result?

These questions, plus so many more, are at the dark heart of Jonatan Etzler’s witheringly funny and searing satirical thriller “Bad Apples.” Inventive and incisive in equal measure, it’s a film that throws a metaphorical Molotov cocktail into its modern private school setting then meticulously observes as the flames spread and burn the…