with the help of a staggering ensemble cast, Steve McQueen has made an intelligent, emotional thriller that contemplates contemporary American politics as confidently as it does blowing shit up
led by a magnificent Viola Davis, the cast is ridiculously stacked. The action is tremendous. And the ultimate message is devastating in its swift brutality
an expertly plotted crime movie; It's a lot of plot for one sitting, but "Widows" will remind you of how massively entertaining crime movies can be, especially when they're animated by the spirit of cool-headed capability, on and offscreen
"Widows," presents an enjoyably dark and sleazy vision of ordinary lives intertwining with the hurly-burly of street thuggery, local machine politics, and half a dozen other forms of daily corruption
"Widows" works as well as it does due to the way McQueen juggles substance with entertainment value to such eager subversive ends; Viola Davis gives a commanding performance.., a #MeToo revenge story with a Black Lives Matter backbone