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By Sarah Cartland (189) for Caution Spoilers (189) on 28 Dec 2018

This is an old-fashioned mess with flashes of potential: Rebecca Hall's lady doctor, as hubristic a medic as any of her male colleagues, is…

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By Cory Woodroof (7) for The Playlist (3,871) on 27 Dec 2018

Holmes and Watson will probably make you smile, and occasionally, it earns that goodwill…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for IGN (1,013) on 27 Dec 2018

The lazy gags, wasted supporting cast and unfocused writing make the film an unfunny chore, which evokes but doesn't come close to their earlier…

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By Nick De Semlyen (166) for Empire (3,446) on 27 Dec 2018

You’ll need a magnifying glass to find the jokes in this send-up of other, better Holmes screen adaptations…

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By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 27 Dec 2018

The gags involve cocaine, bees, primitive MMA, raw unions, and a selfie that goes horribly wrong with the queen, all of which are terribly…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 27 Dec 2018

A completely charmless, laughs-free experience…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 27 Dec 2018

When people talk about Hollywood movies feeling more and more like product, this is what they’re driving at…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for Crooked Marquee (120) on 27 Dec 2018

Fitfully amusing, but insufficiently funny or clever (or cleverly stupid)…

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By Andrew Parker (194) for The Gate (178) on 27 Dec 2018

It's not one of the worst films of the year overall, thanks to the cast and some decent production design, but it's absolutely one of the worst…

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By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 27 Dec 2018

Holmes and Watson is not for everybody, but if you want to see Ferrell off the leash this is the best opportunity in a long time…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 27 Dec 2018

Holmes & Watson is one of those movies that goes beyond unfunny and into a comedy-cubist zone, where jokes are no longer recognizable and laughter…

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By Shaun Munro (472) for Flickering Myth (680) on 27 Dec 2018

An astoundingly lame SNL skit stretched out to excruciating feature length, while wasting a feted cast in the process…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 26 Dec 2018

As a director, Coen commits comedy’s most cardinal sin: He gets between us and the performers…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 26 Dec 2018

There are moments, however fleeting, that suggest there’s a decent Mel Brooks-ian farce hiding amidst the wreckage…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Dec 2018

Because of the talent involved, every now and then Holmes & Watson hits on something bizarrely inspired…

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By Dana Schwartz (34) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 26 Dec 2018

A brilliant supporting cast, which includes Hugh Laurie, Steve Coogan, Ralph Fiennes, Lauren Lapkus, Rebecca Hall, and Kelly MacDonald, is…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 26 Dec 2018

Combined with some awfully lazy riffs on Holmes’s fondness for his seven-per-cent solution, Holmes & Watson is not so much a case of whodunit…

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By Peter Sobczynski (1,159) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 26 Dec 2018

So excruciatingly awful that you have to wonder what it was, other than their paychecks, that could have possessed the cast and crew to keep…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 26 Dec 2018

You can only swindle audiences by thinking you simply throw A-list stars in anything and people will still show up, drooling like Pavlov’s…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 26 Dec 2018

Coroners of comic failure will find much to uncover in the corpse of Holmes & Watson, a thoroughly tedious and never-amusing spoof of Arthur…

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