2011 · action · mystery · adventure
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Directed by Guy Ritchie2h 9m2011
There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.
Our read: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · mystery · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / mystery, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- intense
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