film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
Rosamund Pike is perfection in this intellectual romance, an unsentimental portrait of a woman striving to be appreciated for her mind at a time even more anti-woman than today. Feminist and flinty.
It looks lovely and Ian McKellen is amazing, of course, but it’s not very Holmesian. I suspect Holmes himself would snort in derision at its sentimentality.
Singapore’s official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the upcoming Oscars is an animated Japanese-language ode to legendary gekiga artist Yoshiro Tatsumi…
