Empire Magazine
Jack 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.
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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.
2020Rating: M, Violence123 minsUK
DramaMysteryHistorical
Enola Holmes / Reviews
Hollywood Reporter
It 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.
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Brown'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.
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The Times
Phew. 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.
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USA Today
The game is pleasantly afoot yet again, with a new super-sleuth worthy of her forebears.
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The New York Times
On 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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