While the film might most immediately be remarked upon for its fourth-wall-breaking technique, (especially with Fleabag director Harry Bradbeer at the helm) that’s just one way in which Thorne’s script toys with existing Holmesian tropes. Happily, when you get it right, you mostly get Enola Holmes, a livelier affair that’s well scripted by the prolific Jack Thorne and, as mentioned, impeccably led by Brown. If you do this kind of teen-friendly adventure wrong, you wind up with Artemis Fowl, another story that labours over its young protagonist seeking a missing parent based on their detailed flashbacks. ![]() In the hope of proving herself, she sets out to solve the case while also avoiding her concerned brothers. Narrowly escaping confinement to a girl’s finishing school under the thumb of prim and proper Miss Harrison, (Fiona Shaw) Enola runs headlong into a mystery involving the missing Marquess of Tewksbury (Louis Partridge). But when Mum ups sticks and leaves her to the devices of older brothers Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft, (Sam Claflin) the youngest Holmes refuses to believe she’s been abandoned. ![]() In the film, 16-year-old Enola (Brown) leads an idyllic and independent existence at the Holmes family estate, learning self-sufficiency and a spot of jiu-jitsu from her feminist mother Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter). ![]() Playing far from Stranger Things’ Upside Down-ed psychic teen Eleven, Brown takes the role of Sherlock Holmes’ smarter younger sister (no relation to Gene Wilder’s 1975 comedy) in this adaptation of Nancy Springer’s young-adult mystery series. There are few things as gratifying as watching someone break type in a film, even if the actor in question is as young as Millie Bobby Brown, star and producer of Netflix and Legendary Pictures’ Enola Holmes.
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