Sleeping Dogs (2024)

Based on Romanian author E.O. Chirovici’s novel The Book of Mirrors, this crime drama stars Russell Crowe as an Alzheimer’s-riddled former cop who leaves Memento-style notes around his apartment to help get him through each day. His Roy Freeman is contacted by a Death Row inmate named Isaac Samuel (Pacharo Mzembe) who insists he’s innocent of the crime he was convicted of a decade earlier - the murder of Waterford college professor and researcher D. Joseph Wieder (Marton Csokas). Roy was the detective in the case, though not the best one because he had a drinking problem back then, so he agrees to look into it again, which means catching up with his old partner Jimmy Remis (Tommy Flanagan), who thinks Roy should leave well enough alone. It also means looking into the suspicious death of Richard Finn (Harry Greenwood), who wrote a book about the headline-grabbing murder with the help of Dr. Wieder’s former research partner, Laura Baines (Karen Gillan). All along the way, Roy undergoes radical memory-enhancement treatments that involve brain surgery and meds in the hopes of “rediscovering” clues he may or may not have uncovered before. Speaking of uncovered, we can’t help but wish Karen had uncovered more of her beautiful body during her rough sex scene with Greenwood but we’ll take what we can get from these dirty dogs!