Review: An Education
Rating: ***
Nonna's Rating: $$$
Rotten Tomatoes: 94%
Carey Mulligan makes this movie. She richly deserves her Golden Globe nomination. As a bright, curious English girl, assumed to be on her way to Oxford in the 60s, she has us all on her side. Not just hoping for her survival: we want her to triumph. And, oh yes, Peter Sarsgaard is no slouch either. Part of the magic of this film is that Sarsgaard seduces us in very much the same way he seduces Jenny and her clueless parents. We want (oh so much) to believe we have found the perfect, flawless, loving, genuine man that we know Jenny deserves. The fantasy ensues and then it unravels. And we're all a little older and a little wiser.
Nonna's Ratings:
$$$$ = Worth paying the Friday evening price
$$$= Worth paying the Matinee price
$$= Worth a rental
$ = Wait for cable
# = Skip it
$$$= Worth paying the Matinee price
$$= Worth a rental
$ = Wait for cable
# = Skip it
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