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The Game’s Afoot: “Enola Holmes 2”

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This may come as a shock, but Millie Bobby Brown is the real deal. She is in one of the biggest series on streaming , has been in two blockbusters (kaiju films, at that - “Godzilla: KIng of the Monsters” and “ Godzilla vs. Kong ”), started her own production company at sixteen, and stars in and produces the Enola Holmes films for Netflix. I really liked the first one from a couple of years ago and genuinely love the second one that just premiered on November 4.   I won’t go on at too great length because it is fresh enough and likely to be seen by more people (than, say, “Triangle of Sadness”) and I don’t want to spoil it so soon out of the gate. However, I have to say that Harry Bradbeer, who also directed, and Jack Thorne have made a superior sequel by giving more time to other characters, recognizing that Enola is a young woman out to make a name for herself, and adjusting the tone with the passage of time from teen to young adult (well, Brown is only < checks IMDb> eight...