Widows

McQueen sets a relentlessly portentous tone and employs lots of stark mise-en-scene, but all the fuss feels arbitrary here - the pulpy story simply doesn't warrant such grave stylization.

A thriller for modern women who identify more with the messiness of human lives than with flattened slogans about how great women, as a monolithic group, are.

A great ensemble cast, Steve McQueen lets loose on some of the formalism we've seen in some of his other films and, it moves really well.

It's the dashing camerawork and broad historical awareness of Widows that makes it a truly sophisticated action film, and by far the best crime movie of 2018 so far.

It offers everything adults used to love about cinema.

That essential jolt of satisfaction is missing.

Widows does a generally decent job at keeping its pace up for most of the film, but it can be occasionally dispiriting for some of its meatier themes to fall by the wayside.

Gritty and ferocious, McQueen has you rooting for these ladies from the get-go, you feel invested in the story from the very beginning.

Widows is an instant crime classic.

The heist itself isn't all that clever, but the way the plot slowly unfurls is both brainy and emotionally intense.