Widows review – Steve McQueen delivers an outstanding heist thriller

A dream cast, led by Viola Davis on Oscar-worthy form, have a field day in McQueen’s inspired reworking of Lynda La Plante’s 80s TV drama“Our lives are in danger; our husbands aren’t coming back; we’re on our own”.

Transposing Lynda La Plante’s groundbreaking TV series from 80s London to present-day Chicago, this latest from 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen is an empowering, electrifying thriller with an ensemble cast to die for.Co-scripted by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, it follows a disparate group of women who are forced to pick up the criminal baton from their recently deceased husbands.

Intelligent, engrossing and fiercely emotional (without resort to sentimentality), Widows is a sinewy treat that seamlessly intertwines close-up character studies, big-picture politics and audaciously reimagined heist-movie riffs.

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