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An Education

An Education, Audrey Hepburn

Illustration by Sean McCabe for TIME

There's a fragrance of Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday about Carey Mulligan's radiant breakout turn as a bright 16-year-old whose dreams of Oxford are clouded when she meets an older man (Peter Sarsgaard). The film's a winner too: it beguiles you with wit, then kicks you in the heart.

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