Movie Review: Enola Holmes - Millie Bobby Brown gets to do more than look confused, angry or forlorn, and we're all the better for it.
Someone’s finally done right by Millie Bobby Brown and cast her as a fully fleshed out character. While her roles in ’80s nostalgia bonanza, neither role demands that she emote beyond forlorn gazes. In, a mystery focused on Sherlock Holmes’ brilliant kid sister and her efforts to foil crime, Brown finally gets to do more than scream and frown.
While the movie itself is heavy on plot and heavier on exposition, Brown’s performance makes the story gallop at a breezy clip regardless. She’s liberated, appropriate given thatis about the liberation Enola finds as she comes of age, stepping out of the curated world erected around her by her enigmatic mum, Eudoria .
Along the way she gets wrapped up in the travails of Viscount Lord Tewksbury , a young lord-to-be whose life is threatened by parties unknown. Initially, Enola regards Tewksbury as a bump in the road she’s taking to find Eudoria, more a nuisance than a soul in need. But her better angels win out over traditional Holmesian apathy, and she takes the case., author Nancy Springer’s YA pastiche, nestled in Holmes canon while simultaneously pushing back against it.
The world is built for and by men like Sherlock. Edith , a friend of Eudoria’s and the owner of a dojo posing as a teahouse, tells him as much to his face. It’s a message loudly received against the backdrop of Enola’s adventures in sleuthing and reckoning with womanhood. She’s sharp, capable and independent, yes, but Tekwsbury is awful cute, more so because he’s comparatively helpless.
Taken all together, the film is a lot. It’s a little too much, even, ladened by two endings too many, a necessity imposed by excess plot written into Jack Thorne’s script. But if about five or 10 minutes could’ve been left on the floor,remains enchanting, in large part because Brown is having such a good time hitting different notes.
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