{"id":436514,"date":"2026-05-07T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436514\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:48:09","slug":"the-sheep-detectives-review-a-fine-ewe-dunnit-with-a-flock-of-all-star-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436514\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sheep Detectives review: A fine ewe-dunnit with a flock of all-star celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"

In cinemas; Cert PG\n<\/p>\n

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The Sheep Detectives Trailer<\/p>\n

One to file under \u201cso oddball it just might work\u201d is this pastoral cosy-crime caper from director Kyle Balda, in which a murder is solved by the victim\u2019s flock of sheep, voiced by an all-star cast.<\/p>\n

And if talking sheep wasn\u2019t enough, we must equally suspend disbelief in a sheep farmer that looks like Hugh Jackman, whose George Hardy is found slain outside his hillside caravan.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The cast of ‘The Sheep Detectives’<\/p>\n

A nicely cartoonish Agatha Christie pastiche introduces a host of potential suspects \u2013 a rival shepherd (Tosin Cole), the village butcher (Conleth Hill), the innkeeper (Hong Chau). Add to this the sudden arrival of George\u2019s daughter (Molly Gordon), his lawyer (a show-stealing Emma Thompson), and a snooping reporter (Nicholas Galitzine) \u2013 and it\u2019s a lot for the nice-but-dim local constable (Nicholas Braun).<\/p>\n

Watching every move is the celebrity-mouthed flock (Chris O\u2019Dowd, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Bella Ramsey), their tale here adapted from Leonie Swann\u2019s novel (originally set in Ireland) by Craig Mazin.<\/p>\n

With so many moving parts, it\u2019s a credit to Mazin and Balda that it all stays intact, with the inter-species narrative a smooth and hearty one. <\/p>\n

Four stars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In cinemas; Cert PG The Sheep Detectives Trailer One to file under \u201cso oddball it just might work\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,50372,61,60,270,6992],"class_list":["post-436514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-hilary-white","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}