Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 177
Fresh: 166 | Rotten: 11
Though the latter part of the film may not appeal to all, An Education is a charming coming-of-age tale powered by the strength of relative newcomer Carey Mulligan's standout performance.
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 2
Though the latter part of the film may not appeal to all, An Education is a charming coming-of-age tale powered by the strength of relative newcomer Carey Mulligan's standout performance.
liked it
Average Rating: 3.8/5
User Ratings: 48,583
Get your friends' movie recommendations by adding Rotten Tomatoes to your Facebook Timeline.
A suburban London teen finds her traditional education replaced by something slightly more sinister when an older, more worldly suitor sweeps her off of her feet while placing her future in jeopardy. London, 1961: 16-year-old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is smart, attractive, and eager to start her adult life. She's grown tired of the familiar adolescent routine, so when urbane newcomer David (Peter Sarsgaard) appears in town, Jenny senses a rare opportunity to shake things up a bit. Quickly falling
Oct 9, 2009 Wide
Mar 30, 2010
$12.5M
Sony Classics
All Critics (178) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (167) | Rotten (11) | DVD (7)
You may think you know where the film is going, but its ecstasy and heartbreak will stick with you afterward. It's one of the year's best.
The centerpiece of An Education is the breakout performance of young Carey Mulligan. She is enchanting, and almost convincing as the teenage Jenny, though she can't completely obscure the (justified) suspicion that she's in her twenties and old enough f
A beguiling little film that, with deceptive restraint and forthrightness, opens up worlds of roiling, contradictory emotions.
An Education is just what the title promises, and a delight, as well.
t gives a glimmering surface sheen to the glamorous mirage of David's high life and all but asks, "Would you make a better choice?"
An Education is a vibrant portrait of England on the cusp of its postwar rebirth.
Nick Hornby's screenplay is funny and sweet and 1000 percent English in that catnip-to-American-audiences way he's so good at already.
The DVD of the Oscar nominated feature includes poignant interviews with the director and actress Carrey Mulligan, who became a star after this film.
Mulligan possesses Audrey Hepburn-like radiance, but the 22-year-old actress looks so young, it's hard to perceive David as anything but creepy.
You could do a lot worse than spend 100 minutes with Ms. Mulligan. Movie fans, I give you a woman worth educating yourself on.
Humility, that most educational of human qualities, is earned and wisdom is gained, making An Education not only an entertaining picture, but an enlightening one as well.
... attempts to impress audiences with its worldliness, but it comes off instead as an awkward, unformed teen fantasy run amok.
A star turn by Carey Mulligan playing a 16-year-old who gets charmed (and, uh, educated) by a suspiciously alluring older man, the excellent Peter Sarsgaard.
Trite, whitewashed, simplistic, and sexless.
An unusually nuanced and mature depiction of one of those hoary movie fantasies: the older man who gets the much, much younger woman.
Played with great wit and depth by the 24-year-old British actress Carey Mulligan.
Odds have it, as of this writing, that the Best Actress Oscar race will probably come down to Meryl Streep versus Sandra Bullock, but neither of them carries their respective movie quite as ably as Mulligan does here.
An Education showcases several fine performances in this story about the dangers of youthful cleverness.
It's not a perfect movie, but it is an enjoyable one.
[Mulligan] brightens what could be considered a common lesson in youth vs. maturity, and makes it one worth sharing.
Carey Mulligan deserves serious Oscar consideration for her work in An Education.
In my review of Gregory's Girl, I commented that most coming of age films are remembered for the careers they launched rather than their individual merits as pieces of filmmaking. And now that the dust has settled and its BAFTA nominations have become the recent past, it is clear that An Education is part of this
July 21, 2011
Super Reviewer
At first, I wasn't sure if I would really like this movie or not, but I was eventually convinced to watch it because I had heard some great things, and that it was more than what it it appears to be at first glance.Well, I have finally watched it. I did like it. It's not the sort of thing I'm really into or watch very
July 21, 2011Super Reviewer
| 29% | The Vow |
| 93% | Mission: Impossible Ghost Protoc... |
| 87% | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| 28% | Underworld Awakening |
| 85% | Chronicle |
| 65% | The Woman in Black |
| 25% | This Means War |
| 94% | The Secret World of Arrietty |
| 36% | Red Tails |
| 88% | Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) |
The Avengers stays strong at No. 1
Trailer: In bed with Zoe and Bradley
Video: Your friendly four minute preview
Latest trailer from Michel Gondry