Review - My Oxford Year on Netflix
Netflix has another new release, My Oxford Year, starring Sofia Carson. You may remember her from her starring role in another Netflix movie, The Life List.
(I thought I had reviewed The Life List, but it seems I have not. It was actually better than today’s movie. Look for that a review of The Life List next week.)
In My Oxford Year, Ms. Carson is Anna De La Vega who was born to a Hispanic family and raised in the United States.
She’s a Cornell summa cum laude grad who deferred a fabulous job offer in order to pursue a Master’s degree in English Language and Literature at Oxford.
Corey Mylchreest is Jamie Davenport, a PhD student and tutor in English. Of course, he’s handsome, with a plethora of girlfriends, and he’s from an upper-class, wealthy family.
This may be a spoiler, but I saw it coming from a mile away. He was born into a wealthy, upper-class family, and has inherited a genetic predisposition to cancer. Enough said, right?
Dougray Scott is his father, William Davenport, and Catherine McCormack is his mother, Antonia Davenport.
BLURB
This movie seems to follow the playbook established by Dying Young (1991), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Me Before You (2016), and a bunch of others.
Yes, it has the too-beautiful, too-smart, too-accomplished heroine who cries beautifully—no ugly cry like most women in real life. The hero is gorgeous and sexy, the film has the usual cute bits found in most romances, and the “tragic surprise” is never really a surprise.
Despite all that, there’s nothing inherently wrong with the movie “inspired by the 2018 novel of the same name by Julia Whelan, which was adapted from a screenplay by Allison Burnett.”
I have not read the book so my remarks don’t pertain to the book which may differ vastly from the movie.
TAKEAWAY TRUTH
A lot of people like tragic romance so you may love My Oxford Year and its presentation of the genre. I do highly recommend the other movies I mentioned. Same plot, different presentations.
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Source: https://slingwords.blogspot.com/2025/08/review-my-oxford-year-on-netflix.html
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