{"id":2046745,"date":"2025-09-24T16:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2046745"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:19:15","slug":"bad-apples-review-saoirse-ronan-gets-zero-for-conduct-in-a-very-dark-classroom-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bad-apples-review-saoirse-ronan-gets-zero-for-conduct-in-a-very-dark-classroom-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bad Apples\u2019 Review: Saoirse Ronan Gets Zero for Conduct in a Very Dark Classroom Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Children learn some things at school, sure, but others they just collectively know from the moment they set foot in class \u2014 and one of them is how to immediately size up a teacher as friend or foe, authority or pushover. Sweetly earnest young <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3988769\/\">Maria Spencer<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1519680\/\">Saoirse Ronan<\/a>) is one of those unfortunate educators who, through no real fault of her own, has been placed in the latter column by her perceptive pre-teen students: She\u2019s kind, dedicated and full of ideas, but can barely speak over the room, much less command it. A daringly discomfiting black comedy from Swedish director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2671574\/\">Jonatan Etzler<\/a>, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt29714073\/\">Bad Apples<\/a>\u201d initially appears to be that rare classroom movie that courts more sympathy for adult than child \u2014 at least until Maria discovers her unlikely inner disciplinarian, and our allegiances ricochet all over the shop.<\/p>\n<p>A Toronto premiere that has since opened San Sebastian\u2019s New Directors competition&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children learn some things at school, sure, but others they just collectively know from the moment they set foot in class \u2014 and one of them is how to immediately size up a teacher as friend or foe, authority or pushover. Sweetly earnest young Maria Spencer (Saoirse Ronan) is one of those unfortunate educators who, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2046746,"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-2046745","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-Gets-Zero-for-Conduct-in.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046745","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=2046745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}