With Enola Holmes, Netflix seems hopeful to establish a franchise based on the teenaged sister of super detective Sherlock Holmes, as portrayed by Millie Bobby Brown. The fact that she herself is a similarly gifted, if not more so, detective in her own right as her sibling only adds to the charm and likability of the character, and the film as a whole.

Enola Holmes (Brown) sets out on her sixteenth birthday perplexed after waking to find that her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) has unceremoniously disappeared. Luckily, Enola comes from a rather distinct lineage rather well-versed in solving supposedly unsolvable mysteries and sets about trying to solve the mystery of her unexplained absence. Upon learning of their mother’s disappearance, her brothers – Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin) – seem intent on sending Enola to a finishing school rather than taking on her care. Enola, however, is herself a free-spirited...