Critic Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly Alynda Wheat
The story is standard... but the fun is in the telling. [21 Oct 2005, p.70] |
| 88 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
Everett sticks close enough to the outline created by Arthur Conan Doyle to be recognizably Sherlockian, and yet he deviates enough to create an amusing character all his own. |
| 80 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
Far from genteel, this could be just the ticket for CSI fans. |
| 80 |
Chicago Tribune
Despite the plot's similarity to an episode of "Criminal Minds" (and the fact that this new tale doesn't appear in the Holmes canon penned by Arthur Conan Doyle), this two-hour Masterpiece Theatre offering is well worth a look, mainly for Rupert Everett's crafty portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. |
| 80 |
Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz
Everett carries the role of the master detective off with dispatch -- a portrayal rich in tortured silences and seasoned with touches of campy authority. |
| 80 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
[Stocking...] shrewdly builds on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation. It surpasses a Masterpiece Theatre version of The Hound of the Baskervilles two years ago. |
| 70 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
"The Case of the Silk Stocking" contains more than the usual share of pedestrian turns of phrase, and Neil Dudgeon's Inspector Lestrade is less than an afterthought here. Everett makes up for it with a haunting portrayal. |
| 70 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Everett makes a surprisingly engaging Holmes. |
| 60 |
Variety Brian Lowry
More sordid and less clever than most traditional Holmes adventures, with a last-act climactic twist so convenient and trite as to be somewhat deflating. |
| 50 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
Holmes's reasoning skills aren't best applied to irrational kink. [31 Oct 2005, p.39] |
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