Every class has its resident troublemaker, and in Swedish filmmaker Jonatan Etzler ’s (“One More Time”) first English-language feature “Bad Apples,” that troublemaker is named Danny. As feral as they come, his rage knows no bounds, and after a brutal assault on the star pupil, his stretched-thin teacher Maria will go to unimaginable lengths to ensure he’s absent for the upcoming school audit.

Off the heels of its premiere at TIFF and ushering in the New Directors Competition at San Sebastian, the thrilling and acerbic high-octane comedy sets the audience up for a joyride through its twisted plot, where nothing remains as it seems.

“We had a really good reception at TIFF, most people seemed to really like it. I felt like in San Sebastián, it was possibly even better. They responded ve

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