A new Netflix murder mystery based on a bestselling novel has debuted on Rotten Tomatoes with a near-perfect Tomatometer score from critics.

Richard Osman's hit book series has been given the Hollywood treatment by Netflix, but has it delighted the critics the same way it did with readers?

The Thursday Murder Club closely follows the plot of the first book, which made us all fall in love with the titular crime-solving pensioners: Elizabeth (Helen Mirren), Joyce (Celia Imrie), Ron (Pierce Brosnan) and Ibrahim (Ben Kingsley).

The Thursday Murder Club writer Katy Brand fought back tears as she praised Dame Helen Mirren and Jonathan Pryce for their tender portrayal of dementia in the new Netflix film. The movie is an adaptation of Richard Osman's best-selling novel about a group of retirement home residents who come together to solve murders for fun but find themselves caught in a real-life case.

Movie premieres double as date nights for Sir Ben Kingsley and his wife Daniela Lavender. At the U.K. premiere of his new movie The Thursday Murder Club — held, fittingly, on Aug. 21, a Thursday — the Oscar winner, 81, made a rare public appearance with Lavender, 50, a Brazilian actress.

Thursday Murder Club actress Celia Imrie has said the film’s cast “all would” return for a sequel.

Netflix's The Thursday Murder Club is adapting Richard Osman's crime comedy thriller for the screen, and the cast is stacked.