This comedy and mystery film with Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley is one of the best things you can watch this weekend on streaming

Get caught up in this film that mixes humor, mystery and maturity without clichés

Every once in a while I feel like putting aside the murder and police series to relax for a while with a good comedy movie. Thus, a few days ago, during a work trip I was able to see a feature film full of humor and mysteries that made the journey much more bearable.

It is a comedy film that stands out for having a truly entertaining plot and a luxury cast with three celluloid heavyweights such as Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan y Ben Kingsley.

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Mystery, maturity and laughter: a film for all audiences that will give you a good time

The film that I come to recommend to you today presents us with a peculiar group of retirees who live in a nursing home called “Cooper Chase” and who dedicate their free time to investigate unsolved murder cases for fun.

What happens is the casual investigations of this group, which calls itself “Thursday Crime Club”take an exciting and surprising turn when They find themselves with a real mystery on their hands.

As you have probably already guessed, I am referring to ‘The Thursday Crime Club’, a mystery and humor film whose script was written by Katy Brand and Suzanne Heathcote based on the novel of the same name published in 2020 by British novelist Richard Osman.

Furthermore, this feature film is directed by the well-known director Chris Columbus, who directed ‘Home Alone’, ‘Home Alone 2: Lost in New York’ and the first two films in the ‘Harry Potter’ saga and its main cast is led by three very recognizable Hollywood faces: Helen Mirren (‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, ‘The Mosquito Coast’, ‘The Queen’, ‘Hitchcock’, ‘Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw’, ‘Gangster Land’, Pierce Brosnan (‘GoldenEye’, ‘Mars Attacks!’, ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’, ‘Die Another Day’, ‘Mamma Mia!’, ‘IT’, ‘Black Adam’, ‘Gangster Land’) and Ben Kingsley (‘Gandhi’, ‘Schindler’s List’, ‘AI Artificial Intelligence’, ‘Shutter Island’, ‘Ender’s Game’, ‘Iron Man 3’, ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’, ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’)

Along with them we find some luxury secondary characters like Celia Imrie (‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’, ‘Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace’, ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’, ‘Wimbledon’, ‘The Exotic Marigold Hotel’, ‘Doctor Who’), David Tennant (‘Doctor Who’, ‘Broadchurch’, ‘Jessica Jones’, ‘Good Omens’) o Naomi Ackie (‘Star Wars: Episodio IX – El ascenso de Skywalker ‘, ‘Mickey 17’, ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Master of None’).

Watch ‘Thursday Crime Club’ on Netflix

‘The Thursday Crime Club’ premiered at the end of August 2025 and, since then, has had reasonably well received by the general publicas it has 77% positive ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, with a score of 5.6 out of 10 on FilmAffinity and an average rating of 6.5 out of 10 on IMDB.

‘The Thursday Crime Club’ is a film that lasts approximately about 2 hours and which is part of the immense Netflix catalog, a streaming platform where you will be able to find other feature films that you should not miss such as ‘The Snow Society’, ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’, ‘All Quiet Up Front’, ‘Don’t Look Up’, ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ and ‘Daggers in the Back: The Glass Onion Mystery’.

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