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Mr. Holmes

2015

Bill Condon

Ian McKellen, Milo Parker, Laura Linney, Hattie Morahan ...

6.0

9,496

Mystery. Drama The story picks up with the detective at age 93, long-ago retired to the rural area of Sussex, where he is haunted by an unresolved case from a half-century ago. His partner, Dr. Watson, is no longer with him. And his mental acuity has bid him farewell, too. This is a Sherlock Holmes grappling with his own faded and tattered memory, whose powers of observation and deduction are not what they used to be.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An elegant if slight piece of work, touching and intriguing by turns, but hampered structurally in that it relies on two separate flashback sections (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A poignant companion piece to 'Gods and Monsters' (...) a ruminative film of minor-key rewards, driven by an impeccably nuanced performance from McKellen"	POS
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"The world's greatest detective rallies to solve one last mystery in Bill Condon's intimate, elegiac Sherlock Holmes tale (...) McKellen is predictably superb"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"A witty codicil to the current craze (...) There’s nothing about the film that Conan Doyle fans, McKellen fans, Linney fans won’t relish (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"This is a story about ageing, regret and redemption and that is the elementary reason why it is so effective in tugging at our emotions"	POS
United States	Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald	"Sherlock Holmes may have never really walked the earth, but Mr. Holmes humanizes him to such a degree, you walk out of the theater practically convinced you've just watched a biopic (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"An elegant puzzler that presents the sage of Baker Street dealing with the one thing he's never had to contend with before: his own emotions"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Bill Condon, who teamed superbly with McKellen on the Oscar-winning Gods and Monsters, brings us a riveting character study of a lion not going gentle into winter (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"An adequate trellis for Mr. McKellen's performance, which is gratifyingly but unsurprisingly wonderful"	POS

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