An Education, somebody educate Me on Why This is the Year's Best

[Idioteque...]

Seriously nothing against the movie, entertaining but it wasn't even that good or amazing. I liked it better when it was called The Thumbsucker.

Ignoring the performances most of the characters here are just hateable especially our protagonist. She's just so naive and pretentious. Sure I get the whole wanting to adventure stuff but her parents are so acceptive of the guy. Do they not realize the age difference? And don't get me started on how predictable it was. I was more shocked at the end because they wanted me to accept the reveal as a shocker. I knew how it would end from the beginning I thought it would be different since it's supposed to be one of the year's best.

I think Olivia Williams' character was probably the most likable but I always remember her for her greatness in Rushmore so that plays an effect there.

And the last 15 minutes just feel so rushed. I really expected more from this film and anything this film said has been said numerous times and the plot similarities were so similar to the superior Thumbsucker. That didn't get a best picture nod but this did? Over movies like The Road and Moon and 500 Days of Summer?

Surely I must be missing out on something. I was very disappointed with this movie.