Enola Holmes 3 Wins Praise for Grown-Up Turn as Millie Bobby Brown Leads Netflix Sequel
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Updated · Variety · Jul 1
Enola Holmes 3 Wins Praise for Grown-Up Turn as Millie Bobby Brown Leads Netflix Sequel
3 articles · Updated · Variety · Jul 1
Summary
Philip Barantini’s third Enola Holmes film is praised as a more mature chapter, pairing brisk mystery mechanics with stronger emotional stakes around Enola’s future and impending marriage.
Millie Bobby Brown anchors that shift as an older, more assured detective whose wedding is derailed by Sherlock’s kidnapping, turning the case into the franchise’s most personal mystery yet.
Malta’s backdrop, sharp visual flourishes and demanding chase-and-fight scenes — especially opposite Sharon Duncan-Brewster’s returning Moriarty — help offset a far-fetched central abduction plot.
The review says the sequel misses some of the social urgency of earlier films, with threads involving Maltese freedom fighters and workers’ rights left secondary to family reconciliation and romance.
That leaves Enola Holmes 3 framed less as a conventional whodunit than as a coming-of-age sequel, showing the Netflix series maturing alongside viewers who have followed Enola since 2020.