**_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 want from women is for them to be pretty, and for them to be kind. And it's those shallow qualities associated w…

While the film’s runtime feels stretched out at times, especially with some tangential narratives that don't quite resolve or add much to the plot, every performance from the actors is excellent. Heist films have been done many times, but _Widows_ manages to feel entirely fresh and unlike anything seen before in the genre. Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. I would suggest checking it out.

This movie feels like two separate films combined into one, and my feelings about them differ considerably: Widows centers on a group of women who decide to carry out a robbery after the men in their lives die owing money to a dangerous gangster-turned-politician, Jamal Manning (Brian Tyree Henry). The husbands were attempting to steal from him when they were killed in an explosion. Now, with the debt unpaid and t…

Steve McQueen, who directed 12 Years a Slave, and Gillian Flynn, known for Gone Girl, teamed up to write the script for this very gripping crime thriller featuring Viola Davis. Just those three names would be enough to get me in a movie theater, but it turns out there’s even more to like: the story, adapted from Lynda La Plante’s novel, centers on four women who find themselves on a perilous journey after their husba…

The new crime thriller from filmmaker Steve McQueen (known for 12 Years a Slave) and Gillian Flynn, who wrote Gone Girl, already has our attention thanks to those collaborators and the presence of Viola Davis in the leading role—she's fantastic. The movie, adapted by them from Lynda La Plante’s novel, centers on four women whose lives become entangled when their husbands die under suspicious circumstances, pulling th…