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“The Sheep Detectives” cloaks an urgent message in woolly clothing

Underneath its feel-good fleece, this film sounds quiet alarms about forgetting painful history

Published May 17, 2026 12:00PM (EDT)

The following discusses minor spoilers from "The Sheep Detectives," but don't worry — it doesn't include one bleat about who the killer is.

In any coziness competition, if such contests exist, fleece is tough to beat. It offers a fluffy kind of camouflage when you want to hide from the world’s troubles. That should make the allure of “The Sheep Detectives” obvious at first glance. Sheep might as well be harmless, earth-bound clouds. Just about everyone loves them, and just about everybody loves a cozy murder mystery. What could be cozier than a flock of charismatic sheep hunting their shepherd’s killer?

“The Sheep Detectives” is both a powerful story about mourning and a warning against the peril of mindwiping inconvenient histories.

Even if you don’t buy into the notion that sheep, of all creatures great and small, could possibly have the brainpower to crack a murder case, a movie like........

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