{"id":11392,"date":"2026-07-01T00:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=11392"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:36:28","slug":"enola-holmes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/enola-holmes-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Enola Holmes 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown), now officially a detective, heads to Malta to marry her beloved Lord Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge). However, the nuptials are put on hold when Enola\u2019s brother Sherlock (Henry Cavill) goes missing, setting in motion the young sleuth\u2019s most dangerous case to date.<\/p>\n

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Having brought us one of the darkest, boldest, and most talked-about things to hit our screens in 2025, one-shot child-killer series Adolescence<\/em>, it would be fair to say it came as something of a surprise when Netflix announced that director-writer duo Philip Barantini and Jack Thorne\u2019s next team-up would be on the newest Enola Holmes<\/em> movie. But while Enola Holmes 3<\/em> never threatens to be anything as groundbreaking as Adolescence<\/em> (which, in fairness, was never its MO), this third instalment in the adventures of Sherlock Holmes\u2019 sleuthing younger sister is far from elementary. For both better and<\/em> worse.<\/p>\n

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To give a sense of how many plates Barantini and Thorne are spinning with Netflix\u2019s latest dive into the world of Nancy Springer\u2019s wildly popular books, consider this. In the first ten minutes of the movie there is *deep breath*<\/em> a jailbreak plot, a \u2018one year later\u2019 time jump-forward, a \u2018some months earlier\u2019 time jump-back, a horse-drawn-carriage chase, both the beginning of a wedding and<\/em> then the proposal (in that order), the reveal that Henry Cavill\u2019s Sherlock Holmes is missing, and some plot-pertinent exposition relating to the Explosive Substances Act of 1883. Oh, and everyone heads off to Malta for Enola Holmes\u2019 (Millie Bobby Brown) and Lord Viscount Earnest Augustus Tewkesbury\u2019s (Louis Partridge) nuptials. And yet somehow \u2014 somehow \u2014<\/em> this third sister-sleuther caper is nearly half an hour shorter than Enola Holmes 2<\/em>. (Which, in almost any other circumstance, would actually be a blessed<\/em> relief.)<\/p>\n

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Millie Bobby Brown and Louis Partridge\u2019s chemistry remains as effortless here as it has been from that first film six years ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By the time you chuck in a spot of \u2018Sins Of The British Empire For Dummies\u2019 courtesy of a band of Maltese freedom-fighters and the return of Sharon Duncan-Brewster\u2019s deliciously well-pitched but ultimately still fairly inert Moriarty, what you end up with is a high-octane adventure that is occasionally breathless, often exhausting, but admittedly never boring.<\/p>\n

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Working in Enola Holmes 3<\/em>\u2019s favour right from the jump is the fact that, despite blamelessly both possessing iPhone faces (Google it), Millie Bobby Brown and Louis Partridge\u2019s chemistry remains as effortless here as it has been from that first film six years ago. Sure, Enola and Tewkesbury\u2019s loggerheads-to-lovers love story isn\u2019t really anything new to YA readers, or anyone who\u2019s ever watched a teen romance, for that matter. But there\u2019s a surprisingly rich exploration of co-dependence here \u2014 and what marriage may do to Enola\u2019s identity, which she\u2019s struggled so hard to forge \u2014 that allows Brown and Partridge to add new steps to Enola and Tewkesbury\u2019s now-familiar dance. A particularly lovely oceanside sequence between the pair, a moment of (re)connection amid the chaos of everything around them, is so sincerely romantic and beautifully played that it\u2019s almost a shame when it ends and the overarching plot kicks back in.<\/p>\n

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The thing is that there\u2019s actually no shortage of elements to recommend Enola Holmes 3<\/em>. Costume designer Consolata Boyle has outdone herself with the various incredible fits on display here, all intricately detailed and impeccably tailored finery that’s sure to spawn a thousand cosplays. It\u2019s also incredibly well-lit and dynamically shot by Barantini\u2019s Boiling Point<\/em> and Adolescence<\/em> cinematographer Matt Lewis. (Seriously, never<\/em> underestimate the amount of goodwill generated by a bit of decent lighting in the streaming age.) The film\u2019s social commentary \u2014 on the legacy of empire (British, not our magazine), on gender and class and the weight of familial legacy \u2014 is as well-handled as you’d expect from a Thorne script. And Barantini even manages to squeeze in a couple of signature oners that, though comparatively low-key when weighed against his past works, give this entry a kinetic force that sets it apart from its predecessors.<\/p>\n

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The actual problem with this third film, then, is simply that it\u2019s just so overstuffed, knotty and overly plotty that it rarely gives itself (or the viewer) chance to take stock and catch breath. There are great moments \u2014 the above-mentioned oceanside rendezvous; an unexpected heart-to-heart between Watson (an underused but ever-dependable Himesh Patel) and Tewkesbury; a Maltese-flavoured third-act Mexican stand-off \u2014 but they\u2019re bound to a story that constantly feels as if it\u2019s creaking under the weight of its many moving parts. By the time the credits roll, it\u2019s hard to fully remember everything the past 105 minutes have held, let alone make sense of some of it. Still, it\u2019s all fun and game\u2019s afoot while it lasts.<\/p>\n

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Millie Bobby Brown\u2019s third outing as Sherlock Holmes\u2019 maverick, mystery-solving kid sister may be messy, and more than a little convoluted, but it\u2019s a fine caper nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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