Steve McQueen || ‘Widows’ Review | NYTimes

Steve McQueen narrates a sequence from the film featuring Viola Davis, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Rodriguez and Elizabeth Debicki.

By A.O. Scott || Viola Davis Commands the Screen in a Somber Heist Film

“Widows” is a heist movie in a somber mood, a thriller not entirely comfortable with thrills. Though it has plenty of mayhem and a plot that twists, buckles and swerves, this movie, directed by Steve McQueen (“Hunger,” “Shame,” “12 Years a Slave”) from a script he wrote with Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl,” “Sharp Objects”), moves at a slow, contemplative pace, driven by grief, dread and desperation rather than the more familiar motives of greed, ambition and rebellion.
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