The Thursday Murder Club

Name: The Thursday Murder Club
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Released: August 28, 2025
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 60

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): August 28, 2025 | PG-13

Summary: Four irrepressible retirees - Elizabeth (Helen Mirren), Ron (Pierce Brosnan), Ibrahim (Ben Kingsley) and Joyce (Celia Imrie) - spend their time solving cold case murders for fun. When an unexplained death occurs on their own doorstep, their casual sleuthing takes a thrilling turn as they find themselves with a real whodunit on their hands.

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Comedy, Crime

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 118 min

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Collider Maggie Lovitt

Aug 22, 2025

The Thursday Murder Club is a delightfully charming movie that hits all the highs of the cozy murder mystery genre without any of the negatives. Read full review

Caroline Siede

Aug 22, 2025

If The Thursday Murder Club has a central flaw, it’s that it’s more affable than laugh-out-loud funny or especially clever. In that way, it winds up feeling more like an appetizer than a full meal. In fact, with such an appealing heroine and such an engaging yet underexplored world, you could easily imagine The Thursday Murder Club as a supersized pilot to an ongoing series where the gang solve a new crime each week. Read full review

Karen Gordon

Sep 2, 2025

It’s an easygoing, entertaining movie, boosted by its name cast. And sure, it doesn’t ask much of its audience. But sometimes a well done movie-length TV mystery is enough. Read full review

Josh Larsen

Sep 19, 2025

Standing out among the cast are Pierce Brosnan, clearly enjoying his scruffy beard and potbelly, and Helen Mirren, who threatens to turn this into something sexier and scarier at every moment. Chris Columbus keeps things on the straight and narrow, however, directing as if this were an adaptation of Harry Potter Book 78. Read full review

Yvonne Zipp

Aug 22, 2025

The Thursday Murder Club, despite the best efforts of its truly superlative cast, is pretty much a Sunday night detective drama – albeit one with spectacular production values. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Aug 22, 2025

There’s a fair bit to enjoy here, with the club sometimes resembling a kind of senior-citizen X-Men group whose collective superpower is invisibility; old people can do things without people noticing them. Read full review

Empire Laura Venning

Aug 22, 2025

Maybe this would hit the spot for a Sunday-night sofa slump but it’s more patronising than perceptive when it comes to portraying ageing. As disappointing as a stale scone. Read full review

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