Direction: Harry Bradbeer
Country: UK
A quite charming detective adventure, Enola Holmes is also extremely entertaining, regardless the messy way it was assembled.
The plot, adapted from Nancy Springer’s writings, follows Sherlock Holmes’ sister, Enola (a launching pad for Millie Bobby Brown’s career), in a double mission. While she tries to solve the mysterious, if deliberate, disappearance of her liberal mother (Helena Bonham Carter), she also helps a young Lord (Louis Partridge) to escape his controlling family and a relentless killer sent his way.
An expedite pace, strong production values, easy humor, candid romance, and a pertinent subtopic involving women’s rights are all motives to see Harry Bradbeer’s first non-TV movie.
