Learning to Drive
Broad Green Pictures | Release Date: August 21, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
10
Negative:
1
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60
Total FilmMatt LookerJun 9, 2016
Kingsley essays both authenticity and humour, but it’s often hard to know what’s steering the story. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottSep 11, 2015
Once Learning to Drive gets up to speed it hums along nicely. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghAug 27, 2015
What spares Learning to Drive is an awful lot of comedic talent and artistic good will. Clarkson and Kingsley imbue average material with easy charm and wit, clicking onscreen with the smooth platonic chemistry of old friends. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonAug 19, 2015
At least "Elegy" has some passion. Learning To Drive has harmless sweetness, many revealing speeches about life, and a Kingsley performance that shades strongly into a “Robin Williams as a straight-faced foreigner” routine. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadaySep 3, 2015
Learning to Drive would be an entirely inert expedition were it not for Clarkson, who plays against Kingsley’s sentinel of propriety with her signature radiance and birdlike gracefulness. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoAug 26, 2015
Offers some hit-and-miss pleasures, but may finally strike you as pedestrian. Read full review
50
VarietyJustin ChangAug 18, 2015
It’s no stretch for Kingsley to project stiff dignity and forthrightness, but that familiarity works against him here, despite his every effort to give the character a human pulse. Clarkson, expert at bringing authenticity to the most inauthentic material, gets to show far more range. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternAug 20, 2015
Goes by pleasantly enough as you come to understand where it’s headed, but this romantic comedy, directed by Isabel Coixet from a screenplay by Sarah Kernochan, wears out its welcome, and energy, through unswerving conformity to its dramatic scheme. Read full review
40
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlAug 18, 2015
The filmmakers' hearts might be in the right place, but the film's doesn't kick in until well after you might already have declared it dead. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenAug 18, 2015
With its softball insights about midlife reinvention and its quasi-illuminating glances across the cultural and class divide, the movie takes its place, a la the similarly contrived The Visitor, on the spectrum of It’s Never Too Late character studies. Read full review
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