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Bad Apples

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Maria, a primary school teacher doing her best to inspire a class of 10-year-olds, is stifled by one unruly and chaotic student. With her career in question and the child's behavior spiraling, she makes a series of questionable decisions that lead to her accidentally taking and locking this "bad apple" in her home. Maria tries desperately to backtrack, but when the class starts flourishing and the staff and parents are thrilled with the improvement, she finds herself in a very complicated predicament.

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Guy Lodge Variety Ultimately, this odd, wicked little amorality tale winds up siding with no one: The children are indeed the future, we’re left to conclude, but will they make it any better than the present? Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Brian Tallerico RogerEbert.com This is a consistently engaging, funny film, one that should provoke conversations not just about the systemic problems in education but how they reflect everything around them. Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Chase Hutchinson TheWrap Etzler wields the film’s urgent satire like a scalpel, precisely cutting away at all the lies we so easily find ourselves telling that mask the darker truths about who we are. Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Clara Cuccaro In Review Online Drifts along as an amusing but ultimately shallow exercise, offering shock and discomfort without insight, leaving little to linger after the credits roll. Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Kurt Halfyard ScreenAnarchy The roller coaster along the way is very much worth the price of admission here, if you realize that Bad Apples is as much a theme park amusement as it is a breezy analysis of relative cause Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Marta Medina mundoCine Bad Apples is an endlessly entertaining and gleeful film, at times twisted, hyperbolic, and utterly implausible, that could have gone even further off the rails to become even more riotous and unhinged. [Full Review in Spanish] Rated: 3.5/5 Sep 20, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jonatan Etzler

Director

Saoirse Ronan

Maria

Eddie Waller

Danny

Nia Brown

Pauline

Jacob Anderson

Sam

Rakie Ayola

Sylvia
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Synopsis Maria, a primary school teacher doing her best to inspire a class of 10-year-olds, is stifled by one unruly and chaotic student. With her career in question and the child's behavior spiraling, she makes a series of questionable decisions that lead to her accidentally taking and locking this "bad apple" in her home. Maria tries desperately to backtrack, but when the class starts flourishing and the staff and parents are thrilled with the improvement, she finds herself in a very complicated predicament.
Director
Jonatan Etzler
Producer
Oskar Pimlott
Screenwriter
Jess O'Kane
Production Co
Pulse Films
Genre
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 40m