‘The Thursday Murder Club’: All-Star Cast, Generic Story

Despite four well-seasoned, talented actors, this whodunit lands in the camp of gentle variety of the genre.

The club is meeting. (L–R) Elizabeth Best (Helen Mirren), Ibrahim Arif (Ben Kingsley), Ron Ritchie (Pierce Brosnan), and Joyce Meadowcroft (Celia Imrie), in “The Thursday Murder Club.” Netflix

PG-13 | 1h 58m | Drama, Comedy, Mystery, Crime | 2025

For the most part, murder mysteries fall into one of two sub-categories. There’s the relatively toned-down, Agatha Christie / “Murder She Wrote” variety and the much harsher, grisly, “Se7en” / “The Silence of the Lambs” version. The new Netflix release “The Thursday Murder Club” (“Thursday”) fits neatly into the first camp.