Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” is “Brokeback Mountain” without the sex and depth of emotion, the story of two cerebral thrill-seekers who would rather be with each other than just about anywhere else.

Neither acknowledges this explicitly, perhaps because doing so would push Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic investigators too far down a road Ritchie was reluctant to travel.

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