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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: This is not your great grandfather's Sherlock Holmes. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: This spazzy, sour project is to every previous Holmes picture as the Stephen Sommers Mummy pictures are to the great 1932 creeper The Mummy. Read more
James Rocchi, MSN Movies: "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. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: By now we've seen so many good, bad, and indifferent Sherlocks that it's almost a relief to get something different, however wrongheaded. And there's no such thing as too much Downey. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The movie as a whole is clever, and conspicuously overwrought. But Mr. Downey's performance is elegantly wrought; he's as quick-witted as his legendary character. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Put away your period-movie expectations and you just might have a lot of fun. What makes this movie work is actually something very old-fashioned: movie-star chemistry. Read more
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Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: Despite a few laggard moments of slow going, Ritchie has pulled off an entertaining coup in giving us a Holmes for the 21st century by digging back to the 19th century original and adding a few bells and whistles. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: It's a highly entertaining example of the form, directed with just the right amount of panache by Guy Ritchie, whose showmanship finally finds the right side of self-indulgence. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Playing literature's greatest detective as a sort of self-loathing action hero, Downey has an absolute blast. And thanks to his performance in Sherlock Holmes, so do we. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Downey never winks -- hea(TM)s too much of a pro for that -- but like the man hea(TM)s playing, hea(TM)s much, much smarter than the movie hea(TM)s in. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: There's a mystery at the heart of Sherlock Holmes and it's not the one the great master of detection has been called on to solve. It's how a film that has so many good things going for it has turned out to be solid but not spectacular. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The very idea of handing him over to professional lad Guy Ritchie, to be played as a punch-throwing quipster by Robert Downey Jr., is so profoundly stupid one can only step back in dismay. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: What was the thinking behind all this? Read more
Joy Tipping, Dallas Morning News: This is rip-roaring action-adventure of high order, a sometimes dizzying but ultimately thrilling display of showmanship on the part of the actors, director and screenwriters. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: It's all knotted together, then unraveled with brio, by Holmes and Watson. There are fisticuffs galore, fiery combustion aplenty, and, yes, my dear reader, clever deduction. Read more
Adam Graham, Detroit News: If Sherlock Holmes truly is the world's most keen detective, surely he would have sniffed out that this film was a stinker. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Sherlock Holmes, while a diverting enough night out, is both fun and numb, enjoyable and exhausting. It's a case of more adding up to less. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: Ritchie piles on the excess. It serves him well in fashioning a dazzling, detailed version of 1880s London, with the pardon-our-dust construction of the landmark Tower Bridge a pivotal element. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: Downey Jr. plays the brainiac detective like an overheating machine -- what cools him off is a puzzle. Read more
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David Denby, New Yorker: Downey and Law are terrific together. For me, watching them act is the movie's principal pleasure. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The whole film doesn't feel so much like Holmes as a strange and unwanted sequel to Will Smith's Wild Wild West. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Though purists may balk at Arthur Conan Doyle's literary world being manhandled into a blockbuster by never-subtle director Guy Ritchie, Downey has a winning take on Holmes: He's always on. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Who the deuce decided to filter Sherlock Holmes through Batman & Robin? Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Mr. Ritchie is one of the worst bogus "directors" in film history. I just hoped he might have grown up enough to enlighten the world about the secret lives of two of my favorite mystery characters. Alas, they're both as cardboard as a Madonna lobby Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The game is not afoot. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Given a worthy story, Downey's Holmes might have been memorable. Here, he's an interesting character in search of a worthwhile story. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Dazzling visuals and hipster dialogue, but a story that stays true to the original source material. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The less I thought about Sherlock Holmes, the more I liked Sherlock Holmes. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Ritchie is all about the whooshing and headbanging, leaving no space between Holmes' words to savor their meaning. Downey is irresistible. The movie, not so much. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: It's hard to get too bent out of shape about Sherlock Holmes, partly because the actors seem to take so much pleasure in the act of giving us a crazy spectacle. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Guy Ritchie is the worst screenwriter in the world, but, to be fair, he is not the worst director. He is only the worst director of the people who actually get to make movies. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This is a swashbuckling, pratfalling romp designed to make cerebral Holmes purists drop their monocles into their teacups. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Yes, this Holmes is leaner and meaner, and Watson (Jude Law) is nearly his equal. But there's still something fussy about the result, as if bobbies had broken up the party at 11:59. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Guy Ritchie's Holmes reboot feels both too complicated and too elementary, dear Watson. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It's good enough to just sit back and enjoy Downey and Law plays Holmes and Watson as Victorian versions of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Read more
Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: What is surprising is how bland the results are. The explosions and action sequences have an odd cheapness to them and the central plot is one of those dreary take-over-the-world routines. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Ritchie's 'Sherlock Holmes' is effective as a caricatured comedy adventure and shows some fidelity to Arthur Conan Doyle, especially in Downey Jr's portrayal of the eccentric but cold-hearted Holmes. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Old London, achieved via superb visual effects, is breathtaking in its grimy verisimilitude. And Downey is charming. But his world is jarringly frenetic, in the manner of most Ritchie films. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: If you can get over the idea of Sherlock Holmes as an action hero -- and if, indeed, you want to -- then there is something to enjoy about this flagrant makeover of fiction's first modern detective into a man of brawn as much as brain. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: [Downey] brings a wry conviction to even the most hackneyed part or ridiculously written role. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: At times, Ritchie and company try so hard to make sure this isn't your father's Sherlock Holmes that it comes across as, well, cartoonish. Read more