... it's a perfectly agreeable family entertainment, a craftsmanlike fantasia on Conan Doyle.

| Jan 4, 2018

There is something about Holmes's elegant, haunting, and whisperingly melancholic distance, his analytical remove from the world, that inspires a desire for glimpses of the baroque corridors of labyrinthine interiors.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 5, 2003

If these story elements seem typical of Conan Doyle, there is also a lot in this movie that can be traced directly to the work of Steven Spielberg, the executive producer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000