An Education

London, 1961. A clever 16-year-old school girl (Carey Mulligan) studying hard to get into Oxford to please her father (Alfred Molina) is sidetracked from her goal by a devious but charming older man (Peter Sarsgaard, who pulls off a very good... Full review

In the early 1960's a sixteen-year-old school girl named Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is bored with her extremely strict schooling life and feels devoid of any fun. She is surrounded by incompetent males, including her uptight father (Alfred Molina) and also a... Full review

The subject matter seemed so much darker and serious than Hornby's previous work; until finding out it was based on a memoir during the opening credits, I really was perplexed. We found out later, after being asked in the post-screening Q&A... Full review

7.9 A charming and heartwarming film which I enjoyed all the way through. Wonderful direction by Lone Sherfig of the excellent screenplay by Nick Hornby (adapted from the memoir by Lynn Barbor). Sherfig and Hornby use simple scenes and characters to... Full review

Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is a 16 year-old girl who is attempting to get into Oxford University and has high promise of doing so due to her exceptional intelligence. However, she feels that life is far too linear and she wishes to... Full review

Yet the film is awfully charming.....while "An Education" might've worked perfectly well with a different actress, happily we'll never know.....By temperament, adapter Nick Hornby, the popular novelist and screenwriter ("High Fidelity," "About a Boy"), prefers to risk only so much audience discomfort.....Now 24, the actress with the thrummy alto delivery already has done a good deal of film and theatrical work..... ... Full Review

or at least, suggestive of a captivating and charming picture.....A magazine story about a swotty 16-year-old and her relationship with a seedy older man hardly seems promising cinematic material;....Superbly cast, well acted and funny, sensitively directed by Lone Scherfig, An Education is comfortably the most enjoyable British film of the year.....Chris Atkins's film, both funny and chilling, explores how modern celebrity obsession has eroded values in the media....British-made Starsuckers is a bold, bril ... Full Review

An Education is intelligent and hugely enjoyable, even.... ... Full Review

If Hornby and Scherfig knew how to do that, this would be a great film;....her parents' anxieties lubricated by David's jokes and ready lies -....The script is matched by Scherfig's very cool, understated direction, and some fine performances.....Lynn Barber's An Education, originally a short piece in an issue of Granta, was a marvellous account of an episode in her life -....Olivia Williams is excellent as the teacher who needs Jenny's success more than Jenny does..... ... Full Review

An Education is a delightful, resonant film which introduces bright prospect Carey Mulligan.....However, Sarsgaard is excellently twinkly, resembling a less arse-clenched Colin Firth....Still, this is a delightful, resonant film, a great advertisement for Scherfig's self-effacing....This convergence makes An Education, directed by Lone Scherfig (Italian For Beginners, Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself), a very timely film..... ... Full Review

"An Education" opens in 1961 with Jenny (Carey Mulligan), a 16-year-old British schoolgirl, standing in the pouring rain, her cello case by her side. David (Peter Sarsgaard), somewhere in his 30s, pulls up in his car. ... Full Article

HOLLYWOOD -- Funny and moving in the way it looks at a girl's journey from innocence to experience, An Education does so many things so well, it's difficult to know where to begin when cataloging its virtues. ... Full Article

If there's one thing I particularly dug about An Education it was Dominic Cooper's smug, suave and mildly compassionate character. I mildly remembered him from The Duchess , but beyond that his roles in The History Boys and even Mamma... ... Full Article

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And practically everyone who sees An Education falls in love with its British star, the 24-year-old Mulligan, who is quickly becoming the one to beat for next year's Best Actress Oscar (sorry, Meryl). ... Full Article

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