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(1 - 45) of 45 OFCS Rating: 73% Fresh Page   1   "It's great fun watching Robert Downey Jr. sink his teeth -- and everything else -- into the role of a brainy, brawny Sherlock Holmes."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker C "As a Christmas diversion, it will work for some. As a tribute and effort to introduce Sherlock Holmes to a new generation, it's a notable disappointment."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 4/5 "...just a single casting decision away from being another brilliant update. Instead, it's just a wonderful, if flawed, entertainment."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron 5/10 "The film called "Sherlock Holmes" that has been raking in the money at the box office this Christmas season does not really exist at all. It's an illusion. A Jedi Mind Trick."   Kinetofilm   Brian Holcomb B+ "Funnels Ritchie's visual gifts into an engaging reawakening of the world-famous consulting detective, bringing the iconic sleuth to a new generation of filmgoers by way of fisticuffs, homoerotic tension, and cunning star power."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf C "You'd need a special magnifying glass to identify any elements of Doyle's original literary source material that lends the title character his name."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 76/100 "The film does what it sets out to do, re-establish Holmes as a cinematic hero worth knowing and watching."   Apollo Guide   Dan Jardine 3.5/5 "For the most part, quirky British filmmaker Guy Ritchie has managed to take the character out of mothballs without desecrating Conan Doyle's original vision."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 1.5/4 "...a sporadically amusing yet thoroughly tedious misfire of nigh disastrous proportions."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C+ "One for this modern age of non-thinking action-packed blockbuster movies."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 5/10 "Strahovi da %u0107e Ritchiejev tretman slavnog detektiva predstavljati jo%u0161 jedno holivudsko silovanje kulturne ba%u0161tine uglavnom nisu bili opravdani"   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Dragan Antulov 1/4 "Dour, slow, and with little to stimulate the mind or the emotions, Sherlock Holmes is a big bust."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 3/5 "Más que un relato detectivesco (la trama "policial" es lo menos convincente e interesante de la película) se trata de una entretenidísima comedia en la que Sherlock Holmes y John Watson son algo así como Starsky y Hutch en el Londres victoriano."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B- "Despite being overlong and losing much of its steam halfway through, the film comes out ahead thanks to Downey and Law."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "Intermittently snazzy entertainment"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce C- "Precisely the sort of mindlessly revved-up, high-octane thing one expects from Guy Ritchie...a desecration rather than an updating."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary bloodhound of justice given a less than awesome makeover."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 78/100 "At last, Guy Ritchie has found the perfect vessel for his sugar-rush, hyper-kinetic style of filmmaking."   Film and Felt   Gabe Leibowitz 2.5/4 "Given a worthy story, Downey's Holmes might have been memorable. Here, he's an interesting character in search of a worthwhile story."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "while it is tempting to see Downey's portrayal and Ritchie's amped-up aesthetic approach to the material as revisionism for an attention-addled generation, in many ways it is closer in spirit and tone to Doyle's eccentric character"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "This new Sherlock Holmes movie asks the question, "What if Sherlock Holmes belonged to Fight Club?""   fantastiqueZINE   James O'Ehley 3/5 ""Sherlock Holmes" may feel a little too modern, more adrenaline than brain-power, more brash than British, but it's an all right action-pleasure if you don't mind that the game's more a-fist than afoot."   MSN Movies   James Rocchi "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 2.5/4 "Guy Ritchie's frenzied, over-long "reimagining" of the much-adapted Conan Doyle character isn't quite the blasphemy you'd think, thanks to a solid cast and Robert Downey Jr's inherent likability as the title."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito "The modern irony coursing through 'Sherlock Holmes' meshes well with its charms as an old-fashioned, Saturday afternoon serial."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   John P. McCarthy 4.5/5 "Sherlock Holmes is a solid, enjoyable film with a fun score, a great use of sound and environment, and a trio of confederates you will want to know more of."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3.5/5 "If you can get past the hyperactivity of the film, you should have a good time."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C+ "...the supremely talented Robert Downey Jr. is in danger of becoming a brand now, even if he can still milk a laugh with a well timed toss off..."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3.5/4 "I enjoyed the hell out of Sherlock Holmes."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "[N]erdy enough to be respectful to the beloved source material but geeky enough to express its affection the only way geeks know how: with winking snark and post-postmodern metacommentary..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1.5/5 "A loud, stupid film."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. B "Downey conveys the almost compulsive, almost Aspergers aspects of the Holmes character."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow A- "Whiplash quick and twice as exciting."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3/5 "Já era hora do ocupante da Baker Street 221B voltar a dar as caras nas telonas a fim de ser apresentado a uma nova geração -- algo que o cineasta Guy Ritchie faz de maneira divertida e relativamente eficiente."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 4/5 "Raucous, rough energy infuses this film from start to finish, carrying us along even when the slightly over-egged script starts to feel somewhat slender. And it's the terrific chemistry between Downey and Law that makes the film worth seeing."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B+ "A miracle: a film in the National Treasure format actually worth a damn."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick A- "Serves notice that Baker Street's most famous inhabitant will be with us well into the new millennium."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux C+ "In this adaptation, the Arthur Conan Doyle character is turned into a slightly crazed superhero, an autistic detective savant, in an action movie."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B- "This is a hip interpretation of the source material but give me Basil Rathbone any day as Holmes."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 7/10 "Guy Ritchie hit the big time with this flick but there is too much of the gangs of London and too little of the rumpled professor in the character of the famous detective."   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson 4/5 "exhilarating"   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 7/10 "This 21st century re-imagining of Scotland Yard's supersleuth is less Arthur Conan Doyle and more Guy Ritchie. It's elementary that some "game's afoot.""   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 5/10 "More indebted to Ritchie's particular brand of stylistically exhausting action-adventure than to Conan Doyle's elegant prose and intensely intellectual anti-hero."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 3/5 "The movie's MacGuffin is itself."   DVDTalk.com   Tyler Foster 3.5/4 "Ritchie's accomplished the feat of resurrecting his career as a pulp stylist (London's Tarantino--you could be called worse)..."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 45) of 45 OFCS Rating: 73% Fresh Page   1