If you’d like to see a film that’s under two hours, won’t make you deaf, and will make you think for a moment or two, you could do worse than see ‘An Education.’ I know, this is hardly a ringing endorsement, but I’m finding it difficult at the moment to think of a movie that’s come out in the past two months or so that I’ve felt compelled to go to a theater to see (the lone exception has been ‘The Informant!‘ which features a deliriously batty and very funny Matt Damon). ‘An Education’ tells a story you’ve probably already seen, heard, or read in one version or another, but the performances are pitch-perfect, even if the characters’ motivations aren’t always explicable.
