Widows

Director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) and Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn co-wrote the screenplay for his crazy-intense looking crime thriller starring queen of all queens, Viola Davis. Those three names are honestly all it would take to lure us to a theater, but it actually gets better: the film...

Director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) and Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn co-wrote the screenplay for his crazy-intense looking crime thriller starring queen of all queens, Viola Davis. Those three names are honestly all it would take to lure us to a theater, but it actually gets better: the film...

This film contains two movies, and I enjoyed one of them:

Widows is the story of a trio of...well, widows, who hatch a scheme to pull off a heist. The reason why the widows choose to pull off this heist in the first place is a threat by gangster-turned-political-hopeful Jamal Manning (played by B...

Arguably longer than it had to be, particualrly when a lot of side-stories had little context and zero payoff. But there is not a single member of this cast who disappoints. Obviously heist movies are not a new thing, but there has never been a heist movie like Widows before.

_Final rating:...

Looks amazing, but tries to cover too many issues, and the plot is laughable

Reggie Ugwu: What fascinates about seeing women in historically masculine roles? Do you see something qualitatively different about the way women and men conduct themselves?

Viola Davis: _All we ...