While the mystery might be elementary (my dear, notably absent, Watson), the storytelling is winkingly subversive, proclaiming that a new and welcome game is afoot.

Buoyant and precocious without being even slightly annoying, Brown has pinpoint comic timing, infectious perk, and a wholesome, tomboyish aura: imagine a young Keira Knightley crossed with Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

"Enola Homes" is the kind of movie that the preteen set will surely delight in and watch over and over. I know I would have.

Millie Bobby Brown proves she's more than Stranger Things (albeit with a few too many fourth wall breaks) in this slightly bloated, but ultimately enjoyable action romp in the Holmes canon.