While it is tempting to see Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayal and Ritchie’s amped-up aesthetic approach as revisionism for an attention-addled generation, in many ways it is closer in spirit and tone to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s eccentric literary icon, who is more of a bohemian than the distinguished, erudite figure to which we are accustomed. The team of screenwriters keep the Victorian-era setting in London and draw liberally from the Holmes canon, plucking familiar characters from different stories and mixing them into a new stew that relies as heavily on the master detective’s physical prowess as it does his deductive capacities. Traditionalists may still be appalled, but they always are. (Hollywood Jewel 16, Waco, TX)