MR. HOLMES – Review by MaryAnn Johanson
I love Sherlock Holmes in all his many incarnations, and when I heard that director Bill Condon was making a movie about an elderly Holmes played by Ian McKellan, I cheered. So what’s my problem with Mr. Holmes? It’s this: It’s simply not very Holmesian. McKellen is as lovely as he always is and a great pleasure to watch as a man in his 90s reflecting back on his life and his failings with regret, grief, guilt, and loneliness… but if that doesn’t sound in the least bit like anything Sherlock Holmes would do, bingo. These are rather sentimental endeavors, and Holmes would have no interest in them. Read more>>