Like the creatures for which it’s named, director Kyle Balda’s comic mystery “The Sheep Detectives” (Amazon MGM) might be expected to be innocuous at worst and rather cuddly at best. Yet, as scripted by Craig Mazin, this adaptation of Leonie Swann’s 2005 novel “Three Bags Full” includes material at odds with revealed truth.

The professional legacy of famed entertainer Michael Jackson continues to glitter as brightly as the rhinestone-covered glove he was fond of sporting on stage. Yet the details of his controversial personal life remain as murkily mysterious as they were at the moment of his untimely death at age 50 in 2009.

Along with vampires, werewolves and zombies, undead ancient Egyptians have long been a staple of the horror genre. While “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” (Warner Bros.) presents viewers with a reasonably interesting variant on this motif, the titular writer-director seems more interested in grossing moviegoers out than intriguing them.

Many potential brides and grooms-to-be have experienced cold feet in the lead-up to their nuptials. But few can have had their trotters quite so thoroughly chilled as the previously devoted fiance at the center of writer-director Kristoffer Borgli’s provocative psychological study “The Drama” (A24).

Beginning in 2013, a fact-based British drama series about a gang that wielded power in the Midlands city of Birmingham in the late 19th and early 20th centuries proved immensely popular with TV audiences. Having made a name for itself on the BBC, the show went on to become a hit on Netflix as well.

For the price of a movie ticket, viewers can enjoy a brief sojourn in the Italian countryside thanks to director Kat Coiro’s romantic comedy “You, Me & Tuscany” (Universal).

If Mario, the cartoon Italian American plumber who first figured in Nintendo’s “Donkey Kong” series of video games, were a normally aging human being, he would now be 45 years older than he was at his debut.

Ahead of Easter, Martin Scorsese’s docudrama series about the saints is featuring the queen of all saints: Mary, the mother of Jesus.

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The slaughter continues in “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” (Searchlight), returning directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s follow-up to their supposedly humorous 2019 horror fantasy. The second round of their gruesome competition, it turns out, is just as morally gamey as the first.