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Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley play retirees-turned-amateur sleuths in the Netflix movie “The Thursday Murder Club,” directed by Chris Columbus (“Mrs. Doubtfire,” among many others).

I met the news that Richard Osman’s 2020 mystery novel “The Thursday Murder Club” would be adapted for the screen with a spark of glee, as happens when something you love is noticed by the wider world ...

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It’s easy to smile at “The Thursday Murder Club,” with its veteran performers chewing the scenery and still having the teeth to do it. Does that sound ageist? It might, if the charms of this ...

(L-R) Celia Imrie, Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan in 'The Thursday Murder Club' Netflix Angela Lansbury got 12 seasons and some TV movies out of Murder, She Wrote in her later years.

A good cozy mystery is a gift to us all, but in the case of “The Thursday Murder Club,” a Netflix film adaptation of Richard Osman’s wildly successful novel of the same name, the gift is wrapped up in ...