Title: My Oxford Year
MPA Rating: PG-13
Director: Iain Morris
Starring: Sofia Carson, Corey Mylchreest, Esmé Kingdom
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins

What It Is: Anna De La Vega (Carson) is an intelligent young woman with a bright future ahead. She’s got a great job lined up with Goldman Sachs, but decides to take a gap year to study Victorian poetry at Oxford—something she’s dreamed of since childhood. When she meets Jamie (Mylchreest), she not only learns more about English culture but also discovers a side of herself she never knew existed—and a side of him he rarely shows.

What We Think: Why? Just… why? I love romantic comedies, but Sofia Carson has now burned me twice. The Life List was lifeless garbage, and somehow this is even worse. That previous film at least had a fun performance from Connie Britton. Some of what’s going on here is crazy bad. There’s a pub scene near the beginning that’s unforgivably cringe—like, I genuinely considered turning it off right there. It’s clearly designed to make you sympathetic to Anna, but it has the opposite effect entirely. The romance is flat, and it’s hard to like Jamie at all given his introduction. The script doesn’t help either.

Our Grade: F, Unwatchable trash. I was going to try and be nice—but no. There’s nothing here. It’s shallow fluff meant to be consumed and discarded. It’s a Hallmark movie without the guts to go full schmaltz. Sofia Carson, please stop doing this to the romantic comedy genre. It—and you—both deserve better.

Audience, don’t watch this. Yes, it’s easy to access on Netflix, but being frank with you: don’t do this to yourself. Pick something, anything else.

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