An absolutely delightful and searingly smart take on modern life, romantic relationships and friendship.

| Oct 12, 2021

Director Coixet is a first class filmmaker...

| Sep 29, 2021

An absolutely delightful and searingly smart take on modern life, romantic relationships and friendship.

| Sep 29, 2021

I believe Learning to Drive, for a thoughtful adult audience, could be a lead-in to a wonderful conversation about attitudes toward life, especially in the face of loss.

| Sep 13, 2021

A touching movie that isn't so much about the destination - frankly that part is a mild let down - but about the journey and the words. The pleasure of the film is taking the trip and listening in to these two professionals deliver them.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 3, 2021

If you're interested in something that goes down smoothly and doesn't try to challenge you in any way, you might find this bit of escapism worth your while.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 14, 2020

This is a gently woven story; small yet nourishing, and well worth the ticket price.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2019

While there are a few genuinely funny moments, Learning to Drive isn't the feel-good comedy it's meant to be.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 2, 2019

The movie struggles with tone.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 19, 2019

If only Coixet and Kernochan would flirt with danger a little more in their filmmaking, we could have had a more memorable film on our hands.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 7, 2019

LEARNING TO DRIVE basically takes the Hollywood blueprint about what a film about new beginnings should be and turns it into a Happy Meal that has been replicated umpteen times over.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 1, 2019

Learning to Drive makes me wish we had never met Wendy. Her story is self-indulgent and uninspiring.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 30, 2018

Isabel Coixet brings us an insightful, refreshing and mercifully cliché-free look at a woman in her early 60s learning to start over through learning to drive.

| Aug 22, 2018

With creative writing and adept acting, it's a film that will transport you to a better place in life.

| Aug 21, 2018

This odd couple has much to learn from each other - and I'm not talking about parallel parking. Their scenes together are well-written and deftly acted. As they should be, with two of Hollywood's most accomplished pros behind the wheel.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Dec 3, 2017

Sarah Kernochan supplies an insightful screenplay that deals with illegal immigration, arranged marriage and institutional racism along the way to a touching and cleverly unexpected ending.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 23, 2017

[It] has its own concerns and addresses them simply and winningly.

| Oct 11, 2017

[Patricia] Clarkson, the ultimate WASP and [Ben] Kingsley, born Krishna Pandit Bhanji, are very good together.

| Aug 21, 2017

Learning to Drive... is a satisfyingly grownup movie. Its stakes are gentle but real. Its characters behave decently yet feel strongly, and their parallel worlds are unfair if occasionally joyous.

| Jul 28, 2017

In Learning to Drive, the conversations and 'lessons' exchanged ( ... ) feel too scripted; life lessons disguised as driving lessons, deliberate and contrived.

| Mar 23, 2017