Enola Holmes

Name: Enola Holmes
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Crime
Released: September 23, 2020
Duration: 123 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Adeel Akhtar, Burn Gorman, David Bamber, Fiona Shaw, Frances De La Tour

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): September 23, 2020 | PG-13

Starring: Adeel Akhtar, Burn Gorman, David Bamber, Fiona Shaw, Frances De La Tour, Hattie Morahan, Helena Bonham Carter, Henry Cavill, Louis Partridge, Millie Bobby Brown, Sam Claflin, Susan Wokoma

Summary: England, 1884 – a world on the brink of change. On the morning of her 16th birthday, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) wakes to find that her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) has disappeared, leaving behind an odd assortment of gifts but no apparent clue as to where she’s gone or why. After a free-spirited childhood, Enola suddenly findsEngland, 1884 – a world on the brink of change. On the morning of her 16th birthday, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) wakes to find that her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) has disappeared, leaving behind an odd assortment of gifts but no apparent clue as to where she’s gone or why. After a free-spirited childhood, Enola suddenly finds herself under the care of her brothers Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin), both set on sending her away to a finishing school for “proper” young ladies. Refusing to follow their wishes, Enola escapes to search for her mother in London. But when her journey finds her entangled in a mystery surrounding a young runaway Lord (Louis Partridge), Enola becomes a super-sleuth in her own right, outwitting her famous brother as she unravels a conspiracy that threatens to set back the course of history. … Expand

Director: Harry Bradbeer

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Crime

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 123 min

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Bobby LePire

Sep 28, 2020

Enola Holmes is an engaging, exciting mystery that the entire family will enjoy. The direction is spot on, the acting is brilliant, the plot is intriguing, and the cinematography is fantastic. But the ending is a letdown, not trusting audiences to be content with Enola’s arc. Read full review

James Mottram

Sep 8, 2020

Enola Holmes falls into the ‘something for everyone’ category. Read full review

ABC Peter Travers

Sep 25, 2020

Playing the kid sister of Henry Cavill’s Sherlock Holmes, Millie Bobby Brown, just 16, shines her talent on its highest beams and creates a totally irresistible family entertainment. Read full review

Kate Erbland

Sep 7, 2020

Enola Holmes doesn’t just use its heroine as a cute way to nod at progressive thinking; it fully embraces a story that is, at its heart, deeply feminist. Read full review

Lovia Gyarkye

Sep 22, 2020

The film is successful in balancing these broad themes with our heroine’s adventures, and that is due in large part to the work of Brown, whose energetic performance breathes new life into the Holmes creative world. Read full review

Barry Hertz

Sep 22, 2020

Executed with more energy than either of Guy Ritchie’s recent blockbusters, and with Henry Cavill acting as a more suave Sherlock than Robert Downey Jr., director Harry Bradbeer’s adventure is a perfectly fine piece of Holmes-ian content, if not a work of actual, you know, cinema. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Sep 18, 2020

A bright young actress, a movie-star actor and a potentially interesting concept gets smothered in 128 minutes of colorful, empty nonsense. Read full review

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allyza06

Sep 23, 2020

Its a good movie. I didnt expect all of that ❤️ It didnt disappoint me

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lilyyyyyyyy

Sep 28, 2020

This movie is perfect. Millie, Louis and the rest of the cast did an amazing job at this film. It showed aspects of feminism, adventure & tad of romance, something for everyone! Fully recommend!

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Breu

Sep 26, 2020

Great cast ..lovely movie.. very entertaining ...milly is adorable...and all cast is super...beautifully shot too

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Merlintheone

Sep 24, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After the movie I was thinking that I didn't need to watch it. And you don't have too.
Enola's speaking to the camera makes the film more interesting
The worst part of the movie was the scene where tewkesbury was not dead.
Also in the 1:17:52-1:18:40 scene where microft and enola are in the carriage, her crying looks as if she is showcasing her acting skills.… Expand

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ScienceAdvisor

Sep 25, 2020

Woke YA script that may have an impressive cast, but cannot help but destroy itself with modern messaging and the pathological need to tear down legacy characters, in the pretense of building new ones. Burning down your neighbour's house does not increase the value of yours.

10 of 12 users found this helpful102

Taby314

Sep 26, 2020

Weak story filled with more political SJW nonsense. Tropes upon tropes mixed with a lot of SJW rhetoric, awful Hollywood lens of how a story plot should be, including forced romances and triumphing regardless of reason. Decent money spent so the setting and costumes looked well.

2 of 7 users found this helpful25

Banishmon

Sep 26, 2020

quirky empowered female overdone too much, takes too much on feminism.
A feminist clearly wrote the movies, using their own version of the patriarchy as the villian
This is clearly an internal struggle, which clearly doesn't make sense as a Holmes story nor does it fit the characters that itquirky empowered female overdone too much, takes too much on feminism.
A feminist clearly wrote the movies, using their own version of the patriarchy as the villian
This is clearly an internal struggle, which clearly doesn't make sense as a Holmes story nor does it fit the characters that it uses to attract viewers.
Makes Enola Holmes essentially a superhuman who's looked down upon by her brothers.
extraordinary large amount of exposition and uses it to skip over basically everything. 4th wall breaking is weirdly placed and stupid.
Both Sherlock and Mycroft seem out of character, neither of them are calculated or seem competent in any way, the movie portrays them as arrogant and they become whatever the situation requires of them. Despite being the most well known characters, the Holmes brothers are half-baked and useless. Almost all the attention is placed upon Enola, but they still don't manage to build her up in a way that would make sense.
In spite of what they want you to think, Enola Holmes isnt Sherlock Holmes
The sheer amount of unnecessary scenes is astounding
Mediocre pacing, most of it doesn't make sense in both a storytelling way and a logical way.
It has literally close to zero direction for most of the film, zero coherent things that the main character is supposed to be doing.… Expand

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