Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Moderate
- somber
- tense
- melancholic
- serious movie night
- crime thriller marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly find the film a compelling, emotionally grounded mystery led by Kareena Kapoor Khan, though its procedural construction is not consistently gripping.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
DS Jaspreet Bhamra investigates a missing child while carrying the trauma of losing her own child to murder.
The plot explicitly explores the immigrant experience as Jazz investigates within a community marked by cultural and social tensions.
The film foregrounds the characters’ need for closure alongside the missing-child investigation.
Kareena Kapoor Khan plays a grieving police detective whose professional case directly resonates with her maternal loss.
Films like The Buckingham Murders, and why
Mare of Easttown
shared grieving investigator, missing-child mystery, and psychologically grounded crime drama
The Little Things
shared immigrant-community tensions, procedural investigation, and intimate treatment of trauma
Prisoners
shared murder mystery structure, emotionally burdened detective, and slow-burning investigative tension
Movie Details
- Director
- Hansal Mehta
- Release Date
- 2024-09-13
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 (30)
Cast
- Kareena Kapoor Khan
- Ranveer Brar
- Keith Allen
- Ash Tandon
- Prabhleen Sandhu
- Sarah-Jane Dias
- Sartaaj Kakkar
- Haider Mohammed Javed
- Manish Gandhi
- Adwoa Akoto
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Buckingham Murders about?
- A grief-stricken detective confronts a missing-child case that forces personal trauma and immigrant-community suspicion into the same investigation.
- What is The Buckingham Murders like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Buckingham Murders as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is The Buckingham Murders violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in The Buckingham Murders as moderate.
- What did critics think of The Buckingham Murders?
- Critics broadly find the film a compelling, emotionally grounded mystery led by Kareena Kapoor Khan, though its procedural construction is not consistently gripping.
- Which films are like The Buckingham Murders?
- Films with a similar feel include Mare of Easttown, The Little Things, and Prisoners.
- How long is The Buckingham Murders?
- The Buckingham Murders runs 107 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Buckingham Murders?
- In United States, The Buckingham Murders streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads.
