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Enola Holmes 3 (2026)
Summary
Detective Enola Holmes heads to Malta, where her aspirations merge in her most complex and dangerous case yet.
Director Philip Barantini
Writer Jack Thorne
Cast
- Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes
- Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes
- Himesh Patel as Dr. John Watson
- Helena Bonham Carter as Eudoria Holmes
- Louis Partridge as Tewkesbury
- Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Moriarty
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VOD / Release Streaming on Netflix
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u/Winter-Operation5702 5d ago
I really enjoyed the last two as light and fun movies.
This was mostly boring and I just didnt care.
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u/ghastlychild 4d ago
Maybe it is because of my gap in memory over the movies but I personally am not a fan over how they built character motivations up and tying the plot threads together here.
While I also don't mind that Moriarty wants to give the Holmes family hell, at least flesh her and the mystery itself out to make her a viable threat. That mystery came and went fast.
Also, a me problem but Enola and Sherlock's characterisations for the plot felt hokey as hell to me. Gone were the light-hearted but fulfilling interactions that makes them memorable and in comes the shells of themselves that I have to watch. At least Himesh Patel as Watson is a delight to watch
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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast 5d ago
I actually enjoyed the first two alright, but this one just could not capture my attention at all. It doesn't help that I never really cared about Enola and the lord's romance.
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u/ZeroSora 5d ago
Yeah, same. I like Sherlock Holmes stuff, so I seek it out. I wasn't too interested in Enola Holmes, but I was pleasantly surprised when I found the first two movies enjoyable. Unfortunately the third film just wasn't interesting or that enjoyable at all. It feels wholly unnecessary.
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u/UnsolvedParadox 5d ago
It feels like this one completely ran out of steam, they didn’t have an interesting story & the performances came across as disinterested.
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u/leaponover 5d ago
There was no real depth to the mystery in this one. There was no..."oooh, didn't catch that!". It was pretty bland compared to the other two.
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u/SilverKry 4d ago
I thought the first one was fine enough. I couldn't get 20 minutes into the second before I lost interest. I rarely ever don't finish a movie even if it's really bad.
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u/WhatsAMataHari 5d ago
I echo everyone's criticisms here. Millie Bobby Brown seems to be regressing as an actress or maybe was just bored as she seemed to be disengaged from the film. Plus, there is probably a way to have a movie deal with themes of colonialism and discrimination (the treatment of Malta and the Maltese) in what otherwise seems to be a race-blind cast film, but this one doesn't seem to know how to do it. They seem to want to have their cake and eat it too on that issue.
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u/MaeveCarpenter 5d ago
Personally, I found it awful. I don't like a single character and the plot falls apart when poked gently.
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u/PyroneusUltrin 5d ago edited 5d ago
Took the words right out of my mouth. Why did Moriarty need Enola at all? Nobody noticed that massive chain that wasnt even hidden, next to the engraving? Tewkesbury went there multiple times looking for treasure!
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u/tedfondue 5d ago
I mean, isn’t Moriarity’s whole thing that they enjoy fucking with the Holmes family, not about “needing to”?
agree with the other points though !
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u/WavesRKewl 5d ago
They gotta stop making these. And Millie Bobby Brown is not a good actor
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u/inksmudgedhands 5d ago
The movies are popular on Netflix. There is an audience for them.
Personally, I think they are cute, little movies for people who like lighthearted Victorian mysteries. Are they going to sweep any award shows? No. Do I find them entertaining for what they are? Yes. But then I am sucker for all things Victorian mystery. Especially all things Sherlock related. Even if it is his sister.
And Brown doesn't need to be Meryl Streep for these type of movies. She just needs to be entertaining. And I am entertained.
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u/somersetyellow 4d ago
Enola Holmes is just a caludron of things to piss reddit off
Millie Bobbie Brown
Netflix
A "gender swapped" lead (not really who Enola is but seen people say this lol)
Unserious, cutsie, fun, designed for mainstream easy family watching
Guaranteed to be swarmed by online film critics who will tell us all about how Netflix can't be making money off this because absolutely nobody would ever possibly find it fun to watch.
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u/pingpong_playa 4d ago
Enola Holmes has always had generally positive reactions in this subreddit. Feels like you’re trying to make a narrative that isn’t true about the franchise.
This third one kinda sucked, so it’s getting appropriately regarded as such. I loved the first two as well, but was really bored trying to get through this one.
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u/somersetyellow 4d ago
On discussions specifically around Enola Holmes definitely. People who watched it knew they weren't really that terrible.
But I have seen a lot of casual dislike tossed around at it. Especially in the stranger things discussions over on television subreddits when the topic inevitably rolled around for the upteenth that MBB is a terrible actor and Netflix only makes mediocre content.
It was like the reputation Young Sheldon has. YS is actually not terrible and a genuinely competent low stakes family friendly comedy-drama. But on reddit it was used throughout its run as a punchline of the networks making more Big Bang Theory slop and how somehow dumb normies keep flocking to it. Every time that happened, 3 or so reply comments down a group of people would be like "actually it really isn't that bad, even by reddit standards, did you even watch it?" Content that reddit knows about but the hive mind has written off and makes fun of people who enjoy it for what it is.
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u/pingpong_playa 4d ago
Yet here we are in a discussion specifically about Enola Holmes where the general sentiment isn’t positive. I think that says something about this movie.
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u/lemoche 5d ago
Doesn’t matter. And she wouldn’t be the first person to have success despite being quite limited in their acting abilities because enough people like her.
Just stop caring… no one forces anyone to watch her stuff…
And Netflix will raise their prices just the same no matter if they pay for those movies or not…
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u/TrevWest 5d ago
I for the briefest of moments thought that this film might incorporate Sherlock’s drug usage into the story, as a reason for his disappearance, it did not.
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u/ThomasVivaldi 3d ago
It felt like something with Moriarty was cut. Like either they were going for a Batman/Joker thing with Holmes or some twisted romance.
That scene where she refused to give Tewkesbury's mother water was just weird. The aggression of the character when interacting with Enola earlier was meant to throw her off the fact she was using Enola to find the gold. Its nothing like Moriarty's character from the last film.
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u/granulatedsugartits 4d ago
Agree with the majority here that both the mystery plot and general fun energy were lacking in this one, but I thought the supporting performances were really great! Cavill had a sort of exhaustion that made him seem like a Serious Actor with depth, Patel was so charismatic, and I love that they let Duncan-Brewster crank it all the way up to eleven. She genuinely came across as insane and dangerous, which I've never really bought from the other Moriartys I've seen.
Did they mention what happened to Mycroft (her other brother)?
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u/Mush27 3d ago
Did they mention what happened to Mycroft (her other brother)?
I don't recall him being involved in the second movie either. There is definitely a line early in the movie (I think when Enola and Sherlock are having their argument in his hotel room) where she is talking about her family and says "my brother is a bore, and my other brother [something about Sherlock]".
I assume he just went on living his life after the first movie.
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u/MovieMike007 Not to be confused with Magic Mike 5d ago
My biggest issue was in this film's depiction of Moriarty. Sharon Duncan-Brewster returns as the iconic villain, and this should have been a highlight, but instead it becomes the film’s biggest liability. This isn’t a matter of casting choices; it’s a matter of characterization. Gone is the calculating mastermind envisioned by Arthur Conan Doyle, replaced here by a chaotic, borderline cartoonish figure whose schemes feel less like genius and more like rejected ideas from a middling Bond film.
The result is a Moriarty who never feels threatening, only baffling.
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u/leaponover 5d ago
I feel like it was just lazy with her as the villain. It's like we were just supposed to understand by reputation alone that she was a mastermind, without any evidence through the movie to prove it.
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u/lustindarkness 2d ago
Not as good as the first two movies. But good enough to distract me while I do laundry on a Sunday afternoon.
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u/SuperCoffeeHouse 4d ago
My favourite part of this movie is the press junkets where Millie keeps making Olivia references.
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u/tacoorpizza 3d ago
I really enjoyed Enola Holmes and its first sequel, but this third entry fell short of the quality they had. It’s not terrible, but it seems uninspired.
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u/Chaves-23-dublover 2d ago
I like it. I think it's a good way to finish Enola Holmes character arc. I wish that there was a better mystery though, I would still give an 8/10
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u/bruegmecol 22h ago
Not a lot of positive things to say about this movie, but others are doing that already. I just wanted to know if I'm right to say that Cavill's acting at the final act seemed 'better' than usual? Away from playing some more stereotyped character, there was some more emotion in his acting? Perhaps it's just me.
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u/Unable_Row7297 5d ago
my little sister loves these movies, the second one was surprisingly fun. still waiting for my shift to end so i can watch this in the hotel room.
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u/Plane-Tie6392 5d ago
Lemme guess-Enola's gay?
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u/inksmudgedhands 5d ago
Well, that joke bombed.
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u/Plane-Tie6392 4d ago edited 4d ago
Meh, that’s how it goes sometimes. I’ll admit it was low hanging fruit.
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u/Texcellence 5d ago
My favorite part of the movie was a few Watson scenes in when I realized that he was the main guy in Yesterday.