2018 · crime · thriller · drama
Widows
Directed by Steve McQueen2h 9m2018
A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, they join forces to pull off a heist.
Our read: Widows (2018) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded crime · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured crime / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
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