Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

  This is a huge change of pace from the last film I watched.  If you're interested in more family-friendly and less searing-indictment-of-imperialism, this might be your speed.

John Watson (Alan Cox) is sent to a new boarding school and instantly becomes friends with teenaged know-it-all Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe).  When Holmes' beloved mentor (Nigel Stock) dies under mysterious circumstances, Watson joins his friend in a search for the killer, leading the pair across London and onto to the trail of an Egyptian cult of death.

This is pretty standard 80s kid fare.  The special effects are hit-or-miss in execution but are still fairly imaginative.  There are a few truly cringeworthy moments (Watson's hallucination that evil desserts are after him (get it?  because he's chubby) is particularly egregious) but overall it's not a terrible introduction to the many adaptations of Sherlock Holmes.  Are there better ones?  Sure.  Are there worse ones?  Probably.  It's currently streaming on Paramount+ and Amazon Prime.