Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Mr. Holmes is less about the crime and more about the personality of the Great Detective in his declining years (both in physical and mental faculties), who finds that a greater mystery is that of being human.
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- [New – 1/7/16] | Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: One last case for the elderly detective that convinces him to cherish the mysteries of his existence.
- Robert Cashill @ Popdose
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The climatic moment when McKellen’s Holmes finally shows an outward display of grief and repentance to his housekeeper is gut wrenching, Condon’s story telling setting up the moment as a twilight howl for all the losses in the man’s life.
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: This Holmes is a bland old chap whose most significant characteristics are defined by what he is not.
- Marilyn Ferdinand @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: Mr. Holmes has taken the powerfully evocative character of Sherlock Holmes and neutered him in an attempt to show that men are people, too.
- Hugo Gomes @ Cinematograficamente Falando … [Portuguese]
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: Sir Ian McKellan stars in ‘Mr. Holmes,’ which centres on the legendary detective who’s trying to outwit old age just long enough to solve one last mystery.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Enigmatic and elegant, unraveling the exquisite mystery of memory….
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: This is a fantasy, not a biography where slavish attention to detail is a must. We could have used a little more spark.
- Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: It looks lovely and Ian McKellen is amazing, of course, but it’s not very Holmesian. I suspect Holmes himself would snort in derision at its sentimentality.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Alan Mattli @ The Zurich English Student
- Excerpt: With the beautifully elegiac ‘Mr. Holmes’, Condon, coming off a string of poorly received movies – two entries into the critically maligned ‘Twilight Saga’ among them –, delivers one of his career’s very best works.
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Feels like going Holmes…
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: Mr. Holmes is Sherlock, plain and tall, but the supposedly truer Sherlock it imagines is nowhere near as interesting as the detective of Doyle’s creation is.
- Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: The great McKellen navigates the times and places of these narrative threads with superb acting and excellent age makeup.
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO ESSAY] Even if “Mr. Holmes” is not much more than a picturesque showcase for the actor to mesmerize us once again, that is enough.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Gentle and autumnal, ‘Mr. Holmes’ will undoubtedly strike younger viewers as overly decorous, but it’s a perfect antidote to the loud, vulgar action-movie bastardizations of the character starring Robert Downey, Jr.
- Sarah Ward @ Concrete Playground
- Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: A charming but fatally slow exposition of yet another real Sherlock Holmes.
