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). The group resides in a luxury retirement community at a sprawling country estate called Coopers Chase, where they meet each week in the jigsaw puzzle room to piece together a different sort of puzzle: Real crime in the form of cold-case files. But their most recent obsession is put on the back burner when they learn plans are afoot that could jeopardize their long-term living accommodations. Then a dead body turns up. Then another. The trio, plus a new resident who joins their little brigade, must work to uncover whodunit.

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