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Alynda Wheat, People: VERY GOOD (cg) "...does anyone have more fun onscreen than Robert Downey Jr.?... makes the most of its leading men and delivers on the action..." (Read the full review...) 334 words, 12/15/11 Richard Corliss, Time: MODERATE "...replaces the 2009 film's burly energy with frantic incident: bombs, chases and more bombs.... fresh inspiration is sparse here... it's less an extension than a remake." (Read the full review...) 1,055 words, 12/16/11 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: WEAK (cg) "...what seemed clever and novel the first time around now feels stale and tired.... the chemistry just isn't there this time." (Read the full review...) 537 words, 12/15/11 Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "Sherlock's mental chess game intrigues... Too bad director Guy Ritchie upends the old-school fun by including a barrage of overly stylized slow-mo fight sequences." (Read the full review...) 81 words, 12/15/11 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (cg) "...darkly nimble yet frictionless... Ritchie, if he wanted, could probably make a classic Holmes caper, but instead he treats Holmes' insights as mere froth." (Read the full review...) 221 words, 12/30/11 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: MODERATE (cg) "...eliminates smarts in favor of relentless headbanging.... the grace notes are drowned out by Ritchie's incessant need to obliterate thought and feeling." (Read the full review...) 184 words, 12/16/11 Claudia Puig, USA Today: MODERATE (cg) "...a film that is filled with too many deviations and drunken detours.... simultaneously brash and dull -- hardly a combustible combination." (Read the full review...) 496 words, 12/16/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...set aside your memories of the Conan Doyle stories, save them to savor on a night this winter and enjoy this movie as a high-caliber entertainment." (Read the full review...) 875 words, 12/16/11 Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: MODERATE (cg) "As big, loud moviemaking goes it's not quite as devoid of charm as it could have been, and things being as they are these days, that's saying something." (Read the full review...) 679 words, 12/14/11 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a stronger, better realized movie that builds upon the strengths of the original and jettisons some of the weaknesses." (Read the full review...) 1,079 words, 12/13/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: FAIR "Can a movie be hyperactive and lazy at the same time? Clever and idiotic? If the director is Guy Ritchie, the questions answer themselves." (Read the full review...) 497 words, 12/16/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The subversiveness in 'Game of Shadows' is admirable. You just don't need to be Sherlock to detect that it's lacking vision." (Read the full review...) 302 words, 12/16/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...a few shades brighter than its predecessor... closer to the full-throttle 'Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels' mode director Guy Ritchie didn't quite capture the first time." (Read the full review...) 764 words, 12/16/11 Kyle Smith, New York Post: WEAK (cg) "...so moron-friendly they should have called it 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Checkers.' The skill level in the script is elementary school, my dear Watson." (Read the full review...) 822 words, 12/16/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: POOR (cg) "...a headache, and, finally, a travesty." (Read the full review...) 413 words, 12/16/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: VERY GOOD (cg) "Jared Harris' Moriarty jolts Downey's Sherlock to life for the first time; they're a convincing pair of bristling, not-so-gentlemanly adversaries." (Read the full review...) 512 words, 12/16/11 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: WEAK "Ritchie goes for maximum clutter. His busy, boisterous frames suggest Richard Lester's 'Three Musketeers' films but without Lester's prankishness." (Read the full review...) 350 words, 12/19/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...set aside your memories of the Conan Doyle stories, save them to savor on a night this winter and enjoy this movie as a high-caliber entertainment." (Read the full review...) 875 words, 12/16/11 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "Lackluster screenwriting and the absence of actorly communion are breezed past with monotonous banter, as is the fleetingly visible plot." (Read the full review...) 712 words, 12/14/11 Bruce DeMara, Toronto Star: WEAK (cg) "...the product of a lazy director who has settled for a poorly conceived, pedestrian script." (Read the full review...) 584 words, 12/16/11 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "For all their bantering and bosom-buddying, Downey, Jr. and Law somehow lack the one thing they can't do without - chemistry." (Read the full review...) 678 words, 12/16/11 Josep Parera, La Opinion: WEAK (cg) "Quizá haya miembros de la misma que, abrumados por el efecto, se dejen engañar y crean haber visto una película.... no es un filme, es un despropósito." (Read the full review...) 603 words, 12/16/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...shit constantly blows up or catches fire... Downey's still miscast as Holmes, but it's less bothersome this time around because we already know what we're in for." (Read the full review...) 174 words, 12/15/11
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...draws here and there on Conan Doyle's tales, but it relies more on Hong Kong's hyperactive 1980s new wave, as filtered through 'The Matrix' and Quentin Tarantino." (Read the full review...) 589 words, 12/16/11 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: MODERATE (cg) "...the intellectual side of Downey's Holmes is represented by not much more than show-off blather and far-fetched 'reasoning.' Not a keen mind so much as a careening script." (Read the full review...) 534 words, 12/16/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a thing of mad, whirring glee.... the film lampoons the James Bond action template while delivering all the thrills." (Read the full review...) 542 words, 12/16/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Downey, Jr. and Law retain the winning chemistry from the first, superior film, and that's enough to make you soldier on through the overly stylized action." (Read the full review...) 496 words, 12/16/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "...the light has gone from the star's eyes and the thrill is gone from this franchise.... we have a movie that keeps selling itself long after the sale has been made." (Read the full review...) 674 words, 12/16/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: MODERATE (cg) "...for those of us whose fondness for Holmes and Watson is more than elementary, this is little fun at all." (Read the full review...) 565 words, 12/16/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: POOR (cg) "Guy Ritchie turns Holmes into an action hero, a mumbling mess and a crashing bore, with an English accent that sounds phony even to Americans." (Read the full review...) 693 words, 12/16/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "There's enough fun to be had to justify the ticket price for fans, but just barely. If a third game is afoot, let's hope Ritchie and the rest have a few more ideas up their velvet sleeves." (Read the full review...) 501 words, 12/16/11 Mike Russell, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (cg) "...has all the merits and demerits of its predecessor, only with a less snarly antagonist, a more thoughtful final showdown and broader Holmes/Watson relationship jokes." (Read the full review...) 320 words, 12/16/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: WEAK (cg) "...a second chance to kick a classic character into the gutter.... the most pandering picture of the year? Fo' shizzle, Sherlock." (Read the full review...) 385 words, 12/16/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: EXCELLENT (cg) "Downey relishes each tic and quirk, and playing the self-anointed smartest guy in any room is second nature by now. He's a joy to watch..." (Read the full review...) 530 words, 12/15/11 Adam Graham, Detroit News: GOOD (cg) "...there's something disconcerting about watching Downey Jr. go down this path.... he has become a paycheck chaser, juggling multiple franchises unworthy of his talents." (Read the full review...) 295 words, 12/16/11 Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: MODERATE (cg) "Better than the first one, but not by much." (Read the full review...) 538 words, 12/16/11
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "Lackluster screenwriting and the absence of actorly communion are breezed past with monotonous banter, as is the fleetingly visible plot." (Read the full review...) 712 words, 12/14/11 Josh Tyler, Cinema Blend: EXCELLENT (cg) "The action is intense, the story complex and thrilling, the characters as subtle and nuanced as a good Sherlock Holmes story deserves." (Read the full review...) 705 words, 12/15/11 Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix: MODERATE (cg) "The sequel lacks some of the fun of the first, despite the fact that -- or maybe because -- it adds more explosive action.... elementary, and so is the film's appeal." (Read the full review...) 153 words, 12/15/11 Keith Phipps, AV Club: MODERATE (cg) "So many explosions, but it still finds a way to fizzle out." (Read the full review...) 397 words, 12/15/11 Jen Yamato, Movieline: VERY GOOD (cg) "The play between wild-eyed Downey and the serenely unsettling Jared Harris crackles with a chemistry befitting Doyle's iconic literary nemeses..." (Read the full review...) 895 words, 12/15/11 Nick Schager, Slant: WEAK (cg) "Ritchie goes for tedious commotion over cheeky comedy or cleverness in this depressingly flaccid follow-up... mistakes intricacy for mystery at every turn..." (Read the full review...) 576 words, 12/14/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...shit constantly blows up or catches fire... Downey's still miscast as Holmes, but it's less bothersome this time around because we already know what we're in for." (Read the full review...) 174 words, 12/15/11 Edward Adams, Atlanta Creative Loafing: WEAK (cg) "...gives very little exploration into the man to make us care aside from his ability to constantly confound his nemesis. Ultimately you just go, who cares?" (Read the full review...) 850 words, 12/16/11 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: EXCELLENT (cg) "...nice to see a story about male friends that is this fresh and funny and honest.... The fun of finding new things to say about an old story is very much afoot here." (Read the full review...) 922 words, 12/13/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: POOR " 'Hidden within the unconscious is an insatiable desire for conflict,' Moriarty intones at a crucial point. Maybe so, but there's also a desire for coherence and humanity in movies." (Read the full review...) 212 words, 12/16/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: FAIR "Can a movie be hyperactive and lazy at the same time? Clever and idiotic? If the director is Guy Ritchie, the questions answer themselves." (Read the full review...) 497 words, 12/16/11 Andrew Lapin, NPR: WEAK "Holmes has become a Looney Tune, an exhausting, manic buffoon who keeps almost dying before bouncing, bright and chipper, back to life." (Read the full review...) 593 words, 12/15/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...a few shades brighter than its predecessor... closer to the full-throttle 'Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels' mode director Guy Ritchie didn't quite capture the first time." (Read the full review...) 764 words, 12/16/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...occasionally thrilling, sometimes hilarious and mostly absolute claptrap." (Read the full review...) 970 words, 12/15/11
Brian Lowry, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "...parts of this second 'Sherlock Holmes' are considerably more rewarding... the film sizzles in its quieter moments between Holmes and Moriarty..." (Read the full review...) 542 words, 12/08/11 Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...an elaborate entertainment that whooshes along through the messy streets and posh clubs of 1891 London... not half-bad." (Read the full review...) 880 words, 12/08/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...a few shades brighter than its predecessor... closer to the full-throttle 'Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels' mode director Guy Ritchie didn't quite capture the first time." (Read the full review...) 764 words, 12/16/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: GOOD (cg) "...more of the same, only bigger.... This is pretty much 'James Bond' set in the 1890s.... a more-than-serviceable second time around." (Read the full review...) 670 words, 12/13/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: FAIR "Can a movie be hyperactive and lazy at the same time? Clever and idiotic? If the director is Guy Ritchie, the questions answer themselves." (Read the full review...) 497 words, 12/16/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: POOR " 'Hidden within the unconscious is an insatiable desire for conflict,' Moriarty intones at a crucial point. Maybe so, but there's also a desire for coherence and humanity in movies." (Read the full review...) 212 words, 12/16/11
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