This has been a pretty good year so far for book-to-screen adaptations. Project Hail Mary continues to rake in the box office dollars, and this weekend offers two more movies taken from popular reading material in Remarkably Bright Creatures (streaming Friday with a Netflix subscription) and The Sheep Detectives, which features an ensemble cast led by Hugh Jackman. I don’t know what it is about animal movies that bring out the punny reviews, but let’s make a game out of it and see how many ewe can catch.
The Sheep Detectives is an adaptation of the 2005 novel Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann that some are describing as Babe meets Knives Out. The comedic mystery features a flock of sheep trying to solve the murder of their shepherd, so let’s see what the critics are bleating about in their reviews ahead of its May 8 release on the 2026 movie calendar.
