Mr. Holmes
20156.5movie
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he revisits the still-unsolved case that led to his retirement.
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he revisits the still-unsolved case that led to his retirement.
Actually, a certain placidity seeps into too much of the film, even if McKellen is consistently enjoyable and gets a chance to share a nice moment of interplay when a still-dapper Holmes and Kelmot eventually meet on a park bench. ... For…
The film's plots are soft and flimsy, and they don't mesh as gracefully as they might, With his craggy visage and papery diction, his Holmes is ... The film’s plots are soft and flimsy, and they don’t mesh as gracefully as they might, but…
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic. Mon 22 Jun 2015 09.00 BST.Is there a version of Sherlock Holmes we haven’t seen? Screen incarnations of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated character date back to the birth of cinema (the tricksy short…
