The great attraction in “Enola Holmes,” streaming on Netflix, is Millie Bobby Brown in the title role of Sherlock Holmes’s teenage sister. Enola is much younger than Sherlock (Henry Cavill), certainly quicker and maybe smarter. She seems smarter than everyone except her mother, Eudoria, who is played by Helena Bonham Carter. Smart is a risky thing for a young Victorian woman to be, but Enola wears her precocity well because of Ms. Brown’s vivacity, drollery and, above all, her almost eerie skill. Four years ago, at age 12, she appeared in the TV series “Stranger Things” as Eleven, the near-silent, mysteriously intense...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 24, 2020 19:41 UTC