Mr. Holmes (2015)
Directed by Bill Condon
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he revisits the still-unsolved case that led to his retirement.
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In the last decade alone, three contemporary takes on Holmes have inspired popular TV shows ("Sherlock," "Elementary," and "House").
Indeed, more than a few of Sherlock Holmes’s identifying features – an “elementary” quote, that deerstalker hat – actually originated in stage and film adaptations.
Where Guy Ritchie’s two “Sherlock Holmes” movies played up brawny, boneheaded action that felt dishonest to the source material, “Mr.
In very un-Holmesian ways, the detective now writes a person’s name on his sleeve so he can discreetly glance down to retrieve it when his mind fails, or he attends the local movie theater to watch a “Sherlock Holmes” mystery based on Watson’s version of events in the case, hoping it will jog his own recollections.
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Holmes’ also features one of his stars from 2004’s “ Kinsey ,” Laura Linney , who earned an Oscar nod as the noted sex researcher’s wife.
McKellen (who worked with Condon on "Gods and Monsters") is compelling as Holmes, his sharp intellect tinged with age, and Linney (who starred in Condon's "Kinsey") matches up well against him as the no-nonsense war widow.
Still, it’s all handled with wit and surprising depth by American director Bill Condon, who has long alternated between provocative art pieces like Kinsey and Gods and Monsters and over-the-top entertainment such as Dreamgirls and the Twilight movies.
With Mr. Holmes, filmmaker Bill Condon returns to the greatness of Gods and Monsters (1998) and Kinsey (2004).
Directed by Bill Condon (“Gods and Monsters,” “Kinsey” and “Dreamgirls”) from a script by Minneapolis writer Jeffrey Hatcher, “Mr.
Foremost, Bill Condon reunites with Ian McKellen for the first time since Gods and Monsters, one of the best pictures either has made, and with Laura Linney for a third time, following Kinsey and The Fifth Estate.