Widows

A Superb Viola Davis Leads Widows to New Heights

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Viola Davis stars in Steve McQueen’s heist film.

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Steve McQueen’s thrilling heist movie Widows has more on its mind than a big score

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Steve McQueen’s follow-up to ’12 Years a Slave’ turns an adaptation of a 1983 British miniseries into the powerhouse thriller of the year

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Viola Davis' taut, twisty 'Widows' changes the heist-drama game

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Widows is another major work from Steve McQueen, whose career thus far–Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave–has been marked by risk-taking.

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Viola Davis leads a bereaved crew into the urban underworld in this stylish old-fashioned crime caper

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“Widows” is definitely a good film and one that often has greatness in its grasp. But it often feels like, at some point in the process, McQueen needed to decide if he was making wallpaper or art.

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The best ensemble cast of the year live through Steve McQueen’s Widows, an entertaining, intelligent, but altogether familiar rendition of the heist film.

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In Chicago’s criminal underworld, four men die after a heist goes catastrophically wrong. Their widows are forced to clean up the mess and embark on a heist of their own — against the backdrop of a corrupt political race for the soul of the city.

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Widows, in other words, is a merger — of silliness and perspicacity, of conspiratorial gloom and surprising violence. (Even those who wield it can be taken aback.) So strong is the cast that it carries us over the gaps in the movie’s logic.

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Gritty ‘Widows’ brings the dead heist film genre back to life

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Widows abounds in immaculate compositions, with McQueen and cinematographer Sean Bobbitt frequently layering mirror imagery to create multiple angles of a subject within the same frame.

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Davis leads a gang forced to pull off a complex theft, but her director is more interested in obsessions than robberies

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Steve McQueen's real-world heist movie gives Viola Davis a powerful role as a crime widow who takes cold-eyed command of her desperation.

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The performances are all taut and terrific, as is the direction. Widows bogs down a bit once the heist gets going. (But maybe it seems like just another sharp contrast, a slog in comparison to the rapid images of the men’s spectacular heist shown in the opening minutes.) There may be no honor amongst thieves, but at least one thing is true: Viola Davis knows a thing or two about getting away with murder.

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Widows is an all-star bonanza that never quite finds its tone

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The result is a fascinating and sometimes frustrating hybrid, a film that tries both to transcend and to exploit its genre.

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It's got a great director, a smart script and an amazing cast, but Widows is less than the sum of its parts.

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