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Enola Holmes
2020 123 min United States of America PG-13 12+
★7.0
Adventure, Mystery, Crime
Director: Harry Bradbeer
📖 Based on the novel
«The Enola Holmes Mysteries»
byNancy Springer
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Description
While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.
Budget:
$21M
Starring
Millie Bobby Brown
Actor
Henry Cavill
Actor
Sam Claflin
Actor
Awards
Saturn Awards 2021
— Best Film on a Streaming Service
Key opinion
Enola Holmes is a charming and lighthearted adventure that succeeds largely due to Millie Bobby Brown's charismatic lead performance. While it offers an engaging feminist spin on the Sherlock mythos, it often prioritizes character-driven storytelling over the complexity of its central mystery.
| Acting | Millie Bobby Brown delivers a magnetic, versatile performance that effectively anchors the film and carries the narrative. | |
| Theme | The film succeeds as a light, purposeful, and emotional coming-of-age story rather than a demanding intellectual detective puzzle. | |
| Screenplay | The mystery plot is generally viewed as unremarkable and may frustrate purists looking for a traditional Sherlockian puzzle. | |
| Direction | The fourth-wall-breaking narrative device is polarizing; some find it a creative way to showcase Enola's thought process, while others perceive it as jarring or intrusive. |