JASON EVANS' 100 WORD REVIEWS: Netflix's Enola Holmes

Cute but not quite clever enough


Film critic Jason Evans is here to bring you what you need to know about movies in small but informative bite-sized reviews. Here is his 100-word-review of Neflix’s Enola Holmes.

The Premise: Based on a popular young adult book series, Millie Bobbie Brown (Stranger Things, Godzilla: King of Monsters) stars as the much younger sister of the famed Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill). Teenaged Enola hasn’t seen her older brothers in years, being raised away from society by her feminist mother Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter). But when Eudoria disappears, Enola must become a detective both to find her mother and find her own place in British society.

The 100 Words: The teenaged girl audience will probably love this film. MBB is charming, confident, and clever. She is in every scene (Cavill’s Sherlock is surprisingly unimportant to the story) and is fast becoming a bankable Hollywood star. But the film lags a bit in the back half as it shifts between mysteries and rushes the detective work in a way that prevents us from putting the clues together ourselves. The script also relies far too much on making Enola into a narrator, a weak and unsatisfying storytelling device. A sequel is inevitable, I just hope it is a bit more clever.   

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