Bad Apples TIFF Review: The Most Unhinged Dark Comedy You’ll See This Year

There are movies that are tame — and then there are movies like Bad Apples, a film so off-the-wall and wild that it doesn’t ask us to put on seatbelts before hitting the gas. With a premise that involves a primary school teacher, Maria (the always exceptional Saoirse Ronan), locking her most troublesome student, Danny (Eddie Waller), in her basement, the film, directed by Jonatan Etzler from a screenplay by Jess O’Kane, is one of the best dark comedies I’ve seen in a while. It’s also one that is surprisingly thrilling in its execution.