Prime Video’s Acclaimed Murder Mystery Is Officially One of 2026’s Biggest Hits

A good detective will follow a very precise set of rules in order to help them solve a crime. It's important that those rules be followed to the letter. Look for a motive? Check. Establish a timeline? It's done. Interrogate the suspects? Easy. Eat some grass? Wait, what? Did Sherlock Holmes ever graze a field? If he didn't, maybe he should have tried it. Could have helped, as this lot proved.

Hugh Jackman’s (Logan) The Sheep Detectives has officially become one of Prime Video’s most enduring movie hits of 2026, almost three months after making its streaming debut. The acclaimed murder mystery reached No. 1 among movies on Prime Video in the United States following its June 24 arrival and was still sitting inside Amazon’s worldwide Prime Original Top 10 for the week of September 7-13.

The human cast includes Jackman as George alongside Nicholas Braun (Succession), Nicholas Galitzine (Red, White & Royal Blue), Emma Thompson (Love Actually), Hong Chau (The Whale), and Molly Gordon (The Bear). The flock gets an absurdly stacked voice cast of its own, including Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep), Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids), Regina Hall (Girls Trip), Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: Picard), Bella Ramsey (The Last of Us), and Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso). Kyle Balda (Minions: The Rise of Gru) directs the adaptation of Leonie Swann’s novel, with Project Hail Mary directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller among its executive producers.

How Good Is 'The Sheep Detectives'?

Turns out extremely good. The Sheep Detectives currently sits at 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. But these aren't just 3 star reviews, the film is really good as what could easily have been a one-joke family movie instead became one of the year’s most acclaimed mysteries, with the sheep’s investigation providing the comedy without completely sacrificing the actual whodunit underneath it. Plus, it's extremely moving and affecting, with themes of what it means to belong, found family and working together in the face of adversity. It's truly one of those almost perfect 'family films', a proper four-quadrant production that everyone will enjoy.

The movie didn’t exactly embarrass itself theatrically either, eventually earning around $133 million worldwide before making the jump to Prime Video. Streaming is where things really took off. The movie reached No. 1 on Prime Video in the United States and was also No. 1 across JustWatch’s combined UK and Ireland streaming chart shortly after its release. Months later, Amazon’s own worldwide rankings still had it among Prime Video’s 10 most-watched original movies.

The Sheep Detectives is streaming now on Prime Video.