While not a terrible movie, "An Education" is far from new or interesting. The plot is completely predictable... such a cliché it really needs a curve ball to compensate. But it doesn't provide one. I had no idea Hornby was capable of such pabulum (I've loved everything else he's written). In fact, the resolution is so tame, harmless, unearned it feels like a perfume commercial. This is lazy film-making, and based on the critical reviews I really expected more. The acting is very good, as are costumes, but I was left with a great big sense of WHO CARES? Compared to Amelie, Guinevere, and Wish You Were Here, true masterpieces of female coming-of-age, this is a sodden piece of chintz.
Review of An Education
