Enola Holmes Review

London, the Victorian era. Enola Holmes , the teen sister of the infamous Holmes brothers, Sherlock and Mycroft, sets out on her own path to solve the mystery of her mother who goes missing. But when Enola meets a runaway young lord on a train, her plans derail.

The year is 1884 and Enola Holmes is on a mission — to find her mother, escape her brothers and live life on her own terms. It’s a tall order for the teenage sister of Sherlock Holmes, whose age and gender make her battle an uphill one. But her will won’t be broken, and in the Netflix film “Enola Holmes,” directed by Harry Bradbeer, our title character proves this to anyone in doubt.

After Enola (Millie Bobby Brown of “Stranger Things”) discovers on the morning of her 16th birthday that her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) has disappeared, she reluctantly finds herself under the care of her brothers Mycroft (Sam Claflin) and Sherlock (Henry Cavill). Mycroft wants to send Enola to finishing school, but Enola, who has been raised by her mother to be independent, refuses to have her identity defined by domesticity.

Motivated by a set of clues left by her mother, Enola escapes to London. On her way to the city, she crosses paths with Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge), a young lord also on the run from a suffocating fate. The pair form a predictable (but no less tender) bond.

Our Rating: 4/5

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