Educating Rita Reviews

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Metascore ®: 56
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Variety | Staff (Not Credited)

Aided greatly by an expert film adaptation by its playwright, Willy Russell, Gilbert has come up with an irresistible story about a lively, lower-class British woman hungering for an education and the rather, staid, degenerating English professor who reluctantly provides her with one.

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90
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

Educating Rita, which might have been a charming human comedy, disintegrated into a forced march through a formula relationship.

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50
The New York Times | Janet Maslin

The essentially two-character play has been opened up to the point that it includes a variety of settings and subordinate figures, but it never approaches anything lifelike.

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30

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