2025 · comedy · mystery · crime
The Thursday Murder Club
Directed by Chris Columbus1h 58m2025
A group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases get plunged into a real-life murder mystery in this comic crime caper.
Our read: The Thursday Murder Club (2025) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · mystery · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- twisty
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“You want cozy British sleuths, star power, and a gentle whodunit with wit.”
Skip it tonight — You need a tight mystery; this sprawls past two hours for Sunday-sofa comfort.
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