Enola Holmes

Name: Enola Holmes
Genre: Action, 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): Action, 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

Kevin Crust

Sep 22, 2020

Enola provides a richly fanciful, fresh perspective on the well-worn family name. Read full review

Asher Luberto

May 26, 2021

The film plays with form the way Enola plays with words: dazzlingly, whimsically and sarcastically. It's a breezy escape from a world that seems to be getting darker by the day. Read full review

IndieWire 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

7 of 30 users found this helpful723

shiningtulip

Sep 26, 2020

AMAZING movie! a great cast, I had so much fun watching it. lots of surprises and adventures.

0 of 4 users found this helpful04

FelpsGP

Sep 23, 2020

Enola Holmes is a fun and fast paced movie with a good plot and good characters played by good actors and actresses. Do not mind the extremely low reviews written by close-minded men that feel uncomfortable with Netflix's position about women's empowerment.
Millie Bobby Brown was the perfectEnola Holmes is a fun and fast paced movie with a good plot and good characters played by good actors and actresses. Do not mind the extremely low reviews written by close-minded men that feel uncomfortable with Netflix's position about women's empowerment.
Millie Bobby Brown was the perfect choice for the part of Enola, delivering great acting and really bringing the character to life.
Henry Cavill and Sam Clafling were also good choices, but unfortunately they do not get enough screen time to allow us to really connect with their characters. Sadly, this is the case for most of the characters. Helena Bonham Carter is an amazing actress and I was excited to see her as Eudoria Holmes but I can't help but feel like her potential was wasted since we don't get a chance to know Eudoria in depth. I know, I know... the whole idea is that Eudoria is missing but it's Helena Bonham Carter, the more the better.
Hopefully we get a sequel and get a chance to spend more time with these characters.
The screenplay was clever and interesting enough to make me care for the plot, although it feels like halfway though the movie they just change it completely and never come back to how it started.
Good camera work, animations, colors and scenarios. Nothing else to say about it.
In the end, it's a progressive thinking movie and a refreshing take on the Sherlock Holmes franchise and it was done extremely well and I can only hope it's the first of many Enola Holmes movies we see.… Expand

5 of 21 users found this helpful516

Panchogul

Sep 24, 2020

Solo vi esto por Henry Cavill menudo papasito jejeje .............................................

0 of 4 users found this helpful04

ThiagoSimoes

Oct 22, 2020

The perfect movie to teach feminism to 12-year-old girls. The problem is it's rated PG-13.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

Favala

Sep 27, 2020

I had never before seen anything by Millie Bobby Brown, and still her Enola wasn't believable. Bad acting, too much breaking the fourth wall, with a very bad script and two brothers that were just used for the "men are evil" trope and not even faithful to the original stories. Full ofI had never before seen anything by Millie Bobby Brown, and still her Enola wasn't believable. Bad acting, too much breaking the fourth wall, with a very bad script and two brothers that were just used for the "men are evil" trope and not even faithful to the original stories. Full of political agenda, completely predictable, with a romantic storyline that makes no sense, and no brilliant deductions anywhere to be found. A real insult to the Holmes franchise.… Expand

7 of 11 users found this helpful74

Joshuamolyneux

Sep 10, 2022

Millie does some decent acting but the plot is one of the worst i have seen and I would put it on level with the emoji movie

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