Mark Kermode on DVDs

Guy Ritchie has surprised everybody by making a thoroughly decent period thriller with Sherlock HolmesQuestion: When is a Guy Ritchie movie not a Guy Ritchie movie? Answer: When it is Sherlock Holmes (2009, Warner, 12).Having spent most of his career drearily re-treading the mockney guns'n'geezers routines which first brought him attention in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Ritchie finally does the unthinkable and makes a thoroughly decent period thriller boasting humour, panache and even som...

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