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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1779
- IMDb #1193
- Google retired #895
- Rotten Tomatoes #2559
- Metacritic #2861
- Letterboxd #2615
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3302
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1925
- Metacritic Critics #3578
- Metacritic Audience #1317
- Douban #905
- Kinopoisk #511
- AlloCiné #827
- Trakt #963
Every rating
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Lowest is Metacritic critics on 48, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 54, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Sherlock Holmes and his partner investigate a series of seemingly unrelated murders, terrorist attacks, and business acquisitions. They deduce it is all the work of their cunning nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Their pursuit of him takes them across Europe, trying to prevent him from starting a world war.
Details
- Director
- Guy Ritchie
- Writers
- Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney
- Based on
- canon of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Released
- 22 November 2011
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Romany, German, Italian, French
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $125.0M
- Box office
- $334.6M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 6 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| Saturn Awards 2012 | Best Action/Adventure Film | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 2012 | Best Costume | Jenny Beavan | Nominee |
| Teen Choice Awards 2012 | Choice Movie: Action | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | Nominee |
| Teen Choice Awards 2012 | Choice Movie Actor: Action | Robert Downey Jr. | Nominee |
| Teen Choice Awards 2012 | Choice Movie Actress: Action | Noomi Rapace | Nominee |
| Visual Effects Society Awards 2012 | Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture | Laya Armian, Chas Jarrett, Seth Maury, Sirio Quintavalle | Nominee |
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6 awards — Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
×| Choice Movie Actor: Action | Robert Downey Jr. | Nominee |
| Choice Movie Actress: Action | Noomi Rapace | Nominee |
| Choice Movie: Action | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | Nominee |
| Best Action/Adventure Film | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | Nominee |
| Best Costume | Jenny Beavan | Nominee |
| Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture | Laya Armian, Chas Jarrett, Seth Maury, Sirio Quintavalle | Nominee |