Film: The Thursday Murder Club [2025] on Netflix

The Thursday Murder Club is a fun british light comedy with a crime twist. Nothing groundbreaking, yet still entertaining.

Starring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and others, the film is essentially a showcase for Mirren’s acting skills. She holds the whole moving together and make it watchable.

In summary, this movie is about a group of elderly sleuths who meet on Thursdays to solve cold cases until a hot one comes up. It’s charming to see A-listers working together. If you like a comfortable British murder mystery, this is worth watching. Only if it was a bit more engaging.

The story starts great. With perfet setups and twists and turns. Sadly, the second half of the movie feels disjointed and a second thought. After a charming setup with such a lovely cast it is remarkable just how little they factor in to putting the final pieces together of the mystery which is substantially underwhelming. Those things happen in weekly cable shows where everything needs to be solved in 45 minutes or less. Why are we doing it for a two-hours long movie?

Don’t get me wrong, this is a totally adequate of the book of the same name. The movie is highly watchable, but also totally forgettable. Did I have fun watching it? Yes! Do I care about watching it again? Not really.

Should you watch it?

There’s plenty of money on screen in the handsome production design and cast, but something meagre and perfunctory about the storytelling. It’s like Netflix spent their whole budget on the cast, and forgot to have a decent story.

Where can I watch it?

You can stream The Thursday Murder Club exclusively on Netflix everywhere.