A celebration of intellectual curiosity and personal adventure, An Education"" is a wonderful film.""
- Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter
[Mulligan] makes the role luminous when it could have been sad or awkward. She has such lightness and grace, you're pretty sure this is the birth of a star.
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
No movie I've seen in a very long time has touched me so deeply, or bestowed so much pleasure.
- Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Playing a character who is herself a rare bloom in a field of mediocrity, Mulligan has a star quality they can't teach in acting school.
- Scott Foundas, Village Voice
Un film miraculeux!
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Magazine