Movie reviews: Mr Holmes, Entourage, The Longest Ride

“One can’t solve everything,” is a statement akin to heresy when uttered by the immortal Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen), but then life is no longer elementary for fiction’s greatest detective in Mr Holmes (PG). 

Raging against the dying of the light whilst in self-imposed exile on the South Coast of England, the 93-year-old Holmes reminisces about the one case that remains unsolved, taking up Dr Watson’s duties and writing the story himself, in part as an exercise to keep his mind nimble as he struggles to cope with its deterioration.

Based on Mitch Cullin’s novel A Slight Trick of the Mind, and directed by Bill Condon, Mr Holmes is a slow-burning, elegiac tale that celebrates the extent of Sherlock Holmes’ fame even as Holmes himself demythologises the caricature beloved by the public.