Brock subscribes to the new school of British Imperialism: crafting cozy little trifles that conquer foreigners with preciousness.

| Original Score: C | Jul 2, 2009

Driving Lessons is as dull as its title.

Full Review | Mar 6, 2008

They say that truth is stranger than fiction, but as we see in most autobiographical coming-of-age films, adolescent truth is just as boring as adolescent fiction.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 18, 2007

The highlight here is most certainly Julie Walters, who hams it up royally, and does a fine job of making her role as an aging actress more than just a cartoon character.

Full Review | Original Score: 71/100 | Jul 2, 2007

A warmly funny coming of age story as the ultra conservative clashes with the unconventional in a confluence of the unexpected

| Jun 2, 2007

Tpica besteira de cinema independente que se julga mais inteligente e observadora do que na realidade. O surpreendente perceber que, enquanto Walters e Linney apelam para caricaturas, o jovem Grint oferece uma atuao slida e envolvente.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 13, 2007

Too many alcoholic outbursts and pitiful breakdowns wear down your patience.

| Mar 1, 2007

The film is anchored by Walter's brilliant performance. She has a field day with this rambunctious, pampered yet terribly insecure woman. Grint is often reduced to playing straight man, but his reactions are priceless and the fact that he and Walters have

| Original Score: B- | Jan 11, 2007

Writer-director Jeremy Brock has backloaded much of the hero's family conflict into the final scenes, which collapse under the weight.

| Dec 18, 2006

The characterizations and comic situations both seem forced and labored.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 15, 2006

Driving Lessons is a poignant miniature that offers [Julie] Walters a chance to be typically wonderful - saucy but deep - and [Rupert] Grint to stretch quite commendably.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 8, 2006

Will be remembered as the movie in which we got to see Ron Weasley utter the s-word and the f-word (numerous times); drink wine; and hook up with a Scottish hottie who introduces him to Nick Drake and sex (in that order).

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 8, 2006

Walters is alternately zany and poignant, with Grint the perfect foil, a bemused, confused innocent who only wants to do good.

| Original Score: B | Dec 7, 2006

Driving Lessons runs out of creative gas near the ridiculous end.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 22, 2006

... the film hardly resonates five minutes after it's over.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2006

Depressingly symptomatic of the kind of film that constitutes 'art house cinema' these days.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 16, 2006

For his feature directorial debut, screenwriter Jeremy Brock ("Mrs. Brown") has chosen from a chapter of his own life to tell a story that is as charming and eccentric as it is unsurprising and implausible.

| Nov 14, 2006

It's an exercise in calculated high-quirk in which the most egregious forms of stereotyping -- particularly along gender and religious lines -- attempt to pass for 'human' behaviour.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 10, 2006

Brock creates a sensitive, personal tale of an underdog coming into his own.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2006

Yes, the metaphor is that ham-fisted, as Ben's newfound confidence manifests itself partly in his willingness to chauffeur Evie around, although he's only a student driver.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 10, 2006