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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:28
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8/10
Consensus: 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.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Oct 9, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $4,268,905
Synopsis: Author Nick Hornby turns from novels to screenplays with this talent-driven drama. Carey Mulligan (BLEAK HOUSE) stars as Jenny, a young woman full of promise and intent to study at Oxford. But... [More]
Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike
Director: Lone Scherfig
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
Top CriticA beguiling little film that, with deceptive restraint and forthrightness, opens up worlds of roiling, contradictory emotions.
Top CriticAn Education is just what the title promises, and a delight, as well.
Top Critict gives a glimmering surface sheen to the glamorous mirage of David's high life and all but asks, "Would you make a better choice?"
Top CriticAn Education is a vibrant portrait of England on the cusp of its postwar rebirth.
Top CriticAn Education is, as the title suggests, about Jenny exploring her own desires and shortfalls, and it's too smart a film for easy answers.
Top CriticThe film is gentle with its judgments. Or most of them.
Top CriticThe point here is not to judge past missteps by modern standards, but rather to point out how easy it is to allow dreams to overtake reality.
Top Critic[Mulligan] makes the role luminous when it could have been sad or awkward. She has such lightness and grace, you're pretty sure this is the birth of a star.
Top CriticOne of 2009's finest motion pictures -- an open and honest look at sexual politics and a woman's place in the world during the early1960s.
Top CriticHornby's humane and humorous screenplay is true to the film's title: In short order, young Jenny finds out important truths about identity, glamour and how adults really think and live.
Top CriticA star may or may not be born in An Education, but an actress most surely is.
Top CriticThe next Audrey Hepburn? The new Kate Winslet? British actress Carey Mulligan has drawn some pretty bold comparisons for her performance in the charming new coming of age story An Education.
Top CriticI have a feeling that Sarsgaard could have stretched the role a lot further if the script had allowed him to, but, still, what he does is surprising.
Top CriticNo movie I've seen in a very long time has touched me so deeply, or bestowed so much pleasure.
Top CriticWatch Mulligan's face as she goes from weary to awakened, and see it all come together.
Top CriticIt’s a pleasure -- which I don’t mean entirely as a compliment.
Top CriticDespite the lingering aroma of Victorian rot shrouding 1961, An Education is excitingly young.
Top CriticMulligan is the film's headline, pulse and revelation. In its blithely subversive way, her starmaking performance is a co-conspirator with the movie. Both of them win you over with smart talk and pretty feelings, then kick you in the heart.
Top CriticThrough stellar performances, clever writing and exquisite cinematography, the story is fresh and thoroughly captivating.
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