An Education has been reviewed and reviewed until there's little left to review, but I just saw it a few weeks ago, so I will throw my hat into the ring at the risk of repeating what others have said. The acting was quite suberb; Rosamund Pike was pitch-perfect as the see-no-evil airhead, Alfred Molina outdid himself as the protective, unsure, yet loving father while Carey Mulligan played the naive, sarcastic schoolgirl with perfect finesse. I can't reveal too much without spoiling, but I must say that the costumes were to die for and I think I'll be wearing liquid eyeliner indefinitely as a result. I felt that the "redemptive" ending was a bit rushed, because I simply wasn't ready for the transition. The end (okay stop here if you haven't seen it) reminded me of "The Age of Innocence" (the book) in a way, when Archer Newland waits in the street while his son goes up to see the woman he loved for so long, saying, "She's more real to me down here." Carey Mulligan's character assures a boy in college that she'd love to go Paris with him, and says it as though she'd never been there before. I'm not sure exactly how those two thoughts are connected (Tiffany can probably decipher for me), but they both reflect how we modify our realities to protect ourselves. There it is.
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