{"id":2004268,"date":"2025-09-07T16:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2004268"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:46:25","slug":"bad-apples-review-saoirse-ronan-plays-a-tired-teacher-battling-a-difficult-student-in-a-sharp-dark-comedy-with-shocking-twists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bad-apples-review-saoirse-ronan-plays-a-tired-teacher-battling-a-difficult-student-in-a-sharp-dark-comedy-with-shocking-twists\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bad Apples\u2019 Review: Saoirse Ronan Plays a Tired Teacher Battling a Difficult Student in a Sharp Dark Comedy With Shocking Twists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A black comedy that\u2019s more of a charcoal than a true, pitch-dark Vantablack, Bad Apples<\/a> stars Saoirse Ronan<\/a> 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>, a real discovery in his first-ever role). While Ronan<\/a>, 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<\/a> (One More Time<\/a>) making his first English-language feature, and screenwriter Jess O\u2019Kane<\/a>, adapting Swedish novel De Oonsade by Rasmus Lindgren<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although the relocation of a very Nordic communitarian milieu to a British setting creates its own cultural dissonances, the end result is a nifty ethical puzzle about balancing the needs of individuals versus those of the community. Still, it\u2019s best not to take the plot too…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A black comedy that\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2004269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2004268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Bad-Apples-Review-Saoirse-Ronan-Plays-a-Tired-Teacher-Battling.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}