The Thursday Murder Club ideal for a cold day. 

Four septuagenarian friends live in a retirement community and solve cold cases for fun. But when a suspicious real estate developer is found dead, the four find themselves in the middle of their first live crime.

Elizabeth, Ron, and Ibrahim are three friends in their 70s who live in a very posh retirement home called Cooper's Chase and enjoy solving open crimes from the past. However, when one of the nursing home's investors is found dead – and this death has a direct impact on the future of Cooper's Chase – the three join forces with Joyce, another resident of the place, to solve the case.

Each character in the quartet is charismatic in a different way, which wins the sympathy of those who watch: Elizabeth is a more serious and rational woman and, at first doesn't fully accept Joyce as part of the group, their personalities are quite different. Joyce insists on baking cakes for every Crime Club meeting and ends up being invited by the group because she was a nurse and thus provides insight into the murder. Ron is a good man, a retired union organizer always ready to stir things up at the nursing home. And Ibrahim, unlike him, is a more reserved and polite gentleman. This quartet works very well and the actors have great chemistry, making the characters very captivating.

What caught my attention was how the main character escapes caricature. Elizabeth and her companions aren't portrayed as "cute" old people, but as sharp minds capable of manipulating both police officers and criminals. Their age here is not a limit for anything, it serves as a disguise.

The story is a police comedy, and the film fulfills both of these requirements very well, in addition to the film's pace, which was able to both keep me attentive to the case and entertain me with its sense of humor. The case revolves around the death of investor Tony Curran, who vehemently disagreed with his partner, Ian Ventham (David Tennant's character, whose humor I greatly enjoy). However, the more the group investigates the political and economic relationships of these characters, the more they understand how complex the case is. Unlike what they discussed at the Crime Club, this is a real, ongoing crime that could have a direct impact on your safety and the fate of the nursing home.

I really enjoyed the plot development and the settings. The film is undoubtedly bright, colorful, and perfectly matches the tone of the story. While the supporting characters don't always gain much prominence, the film's quality relies on the quartet's relationship. Furthermore, the cast is comprised of strong names, who bring out the best in each of their characters.

The film brings a very important reflection, that even after a certain age, people do not stop being what they built throughout their lives.

The Thursday Murder Club is a film that provides plenty of entertainment on a rainy autumn day. The film isn't groundbreaking or entirely surprising, but that's not what I expected when I watched it.