The Thursday Murder Club closely follows the plot of the first book, which made us all fall in love with the titular crime-solving pensioners: Elizabeth (Helen Mirren), Joyce (Celia Imrie), Ron (Pierce Brosnan) and Ibrahim (Ben Kingsley).

The 48 year old performer and comic, known for her roles in Doctor Who, Sweet Pea and Anne Hathaway's The Hustle, portrays Joanna Meadowcroft, the "very clever" daughter of former nurse and fresh retiree Joyce Meadowcroft (Celia Imrie).

Netflix’s new murder mystery, The Thursday Murder Club, debuts with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score. Details inside!

The Thursday Murder Club is truly a star-studded affair, welcoming an abundance of familiar faces including Helen Mirren, David Tennant, Tom Ellis and Richard E Grant.

The Thursday Murder Club is a film in the crime comedy genre directed by Chris Columbus. The British flick is written by Suzanne Heathcote and Katy Brand and is adapted from Richard Osman's 2020 novel.

Netflix’s Richard Osman adaptation is so flimsy and digestible, it barely exists - 2/5 Richard Osman’s bestselling ‘cosy crime’ novel gets a film adaptation that fails to make the most of its all-star

Think the bestselling mystery books – now adapted into a new Netflix film – are exclusively for readers as old as their crime-busting OAP heroes? Think again. Helen Coffey speaks to the twentysomethin

The Thursday Murder Club has been released in cinemas this week with the film also soon-to-be dropped on Netflix.

Movie premieres double as date nights for Sir Ben Kingsley and his wife Daniela Lavender. At the U.K. premiere of his new movie The Thursday Murder Club — held, fittingly, on Aug. 21, a Thursday — the Oscar winner, 81, made a rare public appearance with Lavender, 50, a Brazilian actress.