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By Nicholas Barber (220) for Independent on Sunday (201) on 05 Jan 2010

The franchise has got itself two cracking characters and one enticing setting. Now all it needs is a half-decent story to go with them…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 05 Jan 2010

This balance of brain and brawn skews too far in the wrong direction, with a few too many mindless action sequences overcompensating for the…

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By James O'ehley (345) for fantastiqueZINE (7) on 04 Jan 2010

This new Sherlock Holmes movie asks the question, What if Sherlock Holmes belonged to Fight Club…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 04 Jan 2010

Worst of all, this Sherlock Holmes isn't fun…

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By Stephen Silver (684) for The Trend (130) on 03 Jan 2010

No, the problem isn't that the movie makes the Holmes character more of an action hero than Doyle ever intended…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 02 Jan 2010

Funnels Ritchie's visual gifts into an engaging reawakening of the world-famous consulting detective, bringing the iconic sleuth to a new generation…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 02 Jan 2010

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…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 01 Jan 2010

One for this modern age of non-thinking action-packed blockbuster movies…

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By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 01 Jan 2010

One of the sourest experiences of my movie year, not a mindless sequel, but...the needless dumbing-down, almost gleeful sacralizing, and generic…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 01 Jan 2010

More indebted to Ritchie's particular brand of stylistically exhausting action-adventure than to Conan Doyle's elegant prose and intensely…

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By Dan Lybarger (786) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 31 Dec 2009

For the most part, quirky British filmmaker Guy Ritchie has managed to take the character out of mothballs without desecrating Conan Doyle's…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 31 Dec 2009

Make no mistake, Sherlock Holmes is every inch a Guy Ritchie picture -- only it's a Guy Ritchie picture about Sherlock Holmes…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 30 Dec 2009

This is a hip interpretation of the source material but give me Basil Rathbone any day as Holmes…

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By Dan Jardine (362) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 30 Dec 2009

The film does what it sets out to do, re-establish Holmes as a cinematic hero worth knowing and watching…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 30 Dec 2009

While a fish rots from its head down, a film suffers from the screenplay up -- which is where Sherlock Homes stinks…

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By Betty Jo Tucker (725) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 29 Dec 2009

It's great fun watching Robert Downey Jr. sink his teeth -- and everything else -- into the role of a brainy, brawny Sherlock Holmes…

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By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 29 Dec 2009

In this adaptation, the Arthur Conan Doyle character is turned into a slightly crazed superhero, an autistic detective savant, in an action movie…

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By Jackie K. Cooper (1,018) for jackiekcooper.com (943) on 29 Dec 2009

Purists may bemoan its modern slant but those just looking for action and thrills will be entertained…

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By Rob Humanick (476) for Projection Booth (270) on 29 Dec 2009

A miracle: a film in the National Treasure format actually worth a damn…

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By Jeffrey Lyles (696) for Gazette (MD) (105) on 29 Dec 2009

Downey continues his hot streak of performances %u2014 which by itself is worth the price of admission %u2014 and there's a lot to love about…

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