Bigelow’s Hurt Locker got the glory. But Lone Scherfig’s An Education is the better film

| Jun 5, 2024

It is ever so slightly warped, capped off with a delightful, cheeky soundtrack...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2024

Adapted by Nick Hornby from a memoir by Lynn Barber, this is an enjoyably bracing portrait of a romantic misadventure.

| Sep 18, 2023

Carey Mulligan’s breakthrough performance in An Education deserves the affection it’s getting and serves as the film’s easiest selling point.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2023

Soundtracked by the sensuous jazz of the Swinging Sixties, the film is at once stylish and soul-searching, a thoughtful meditation on the pitfalls of grasping for adulthood too soon.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 25, 2021

It is spoiled ... by a rather predictable script and a conventional denouement, and the narrow outlook to which it seems to subscribe.

| Feb 13, 2021

An Education offers the thrilling sight of a smart young woman in charge of her own sexuality.

| Jan 23, 2020

Lone Scherfig and her cast and crew give us all AN EDUCATION. Go straight to the head of the class with AN EDUCATION!!

| Nov 6, 2019

But it's [Carey] Mulligan who shines throughout, bringing a wide-eyed naïve endearing charm to her character, her intelligence and pragmatism making Jenny far more than just a silly schoolgirl.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2019

Nick Hornby wrote the screenplay by inflating a fragment of Lynn Barber's memoir, failing to disguise the thinness of the material.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 25, 2019

Treats the issues it raises as black and white rather than really exploring them in a satisfying way.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 5, 2019

This is a charming coming-of-age film anchored by a star-making turn from lead Carey Mulligan.

| Original Score: A- | May 10, 2019

It's Lone Scherfig's subtle direction and Mr. Hornby's thoughtful script that make An Education such an interesting film, though.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 1, 2018

Scherfig manages this relationship superbly and it's this central lesson that makes An Education a film that will delight both the young and old.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2018

This is a nostalgically elegant, comically restrained, cleverly scripted film which, in parts, is also extremely moving.

| Aug 30, 2018

One of the chief pleasures of Lone Scherfig's crisply confident and charmingly comic coming-of-age drama is in seeing a teenage girl kick against the pricks for a change.

| Jul 6, 2018

An Education is so good, so intelligent that it invites little shocks of recognition or inspires debate.

| Feb 5, 2018

This is a lovely, delicious film with fine acting and a unique plot.

| Jan 17, 2018

What's good about Mulligan's performance is that it's subtle, and seemingly very natural. What's underwhelming about An Education is that all the drama that naturally occurs in a situation like Jenny's was missing.

| Original Score: B | Sep 11, 2017

Carey Mulligan announces herself as a major name to watch.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 26, 2014