Enola Holmes
Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) is Enola Holmes, Sherlock's teen sister, on the search for her missing mother in this detective mystery flick from the Emmy-winning director of Fleabag. Based on the novel series by Nancy Springer, adapted to the screen by Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials) and co-starring Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) and Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) as her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft.
Reviews & comments
Empire Magazine
pressJack Thorne's sometimes thin screenplay aims for a sunny-side-up appeal, but too often these cheery morals hit you over the head like a ton of bricks.
Hollywood Reporter
pressIt successfully imagines a place for its heroine in Holmes' world, then convinces young viewers that Enola needn't be constrained by that world's borders.
Variety
pressBrown's acting style recalls the effusive spontaneity Keira Knightley brought to "Sense and Sensibility," shattering the straitlaced propriety of so many Jane Austen adaptations before it.
The Times
pressPhew. The prevailing emotion on watching Millie Bobby Brown play Sherlock Holmes's teenage sister in this jaunty adaptation of Nancy Springer's novels is relief.
IGN
pressManhandled politics aside, Enola Holmes offers plenty of whiz-bang in its mystery.
USA Today
pressThe game is pleasantly afoot yet again, with a new super-sleuth worthy of her forebears.
The New York Times
pressOn the surface, "Enola Holmes" is about a young woman in search of herself, but the film's value comes from a deeper investigation of power, familial bonds and the risks of changing a world determined to stay the same.
Empire Magazine
pressJack Thorne's sometimes thin screenplay aims for a sunny-side-up appeal, but too often these cheery morals hit you over the head like a ton of bricks.
Hollywood Reporter
pressIt successfully imagines a place for its heroine in Holmes' world, then convinces young viewers that Enola needn't be constrained by that world's borders.
Variety
pressBrown's acting style recalls the effusive spontaneity Keira Knightley brought to "Sense and Sensibility," shattering the straitlaced propriety of so many Jane Austen adaptations before it.
The Times
pressPhew. The prevailing emotion on watching Millie Bobby Brown play Sherlock Holmes's teenage sister in this jaunty adaptation of Nancy Springer's novels is relief.
IGN
pressManhandled politics aside, Enola Holmes offers plenty of whiz-bang in its mystery.
USA Today
pressThe game is pleasantly afoot yet again, with a new super-sleuth worthy of her forebears.
The New York Times
pressOn the surface, "Enola Holmes" is about a young woman in search of herself, but the film's value comes from a deeper investigation of power, familial bonds and the risks of changing a world determined to stay the same.
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