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In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching "University Challenge," a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.
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83
The A.V. Club
A beautifully observed coming-of-age story.
80
Wall Street Journal
A surprisingly agile and delightfully warm romantic comedy.
75
There's a tidiness and affection to this British homage to John Hughes movies.
75
McAvoy succeeds in making the boy's mania for trivia endearing rather than annoying. As his (delayed) love interest, Rebecca Hall, playing a campus radical and the first Jewish person he has ever encountered, is stunning.
75
Rolling Stone
Jolly good show.
