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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 upby John Nugent [Empire Magazine ]
led by a magnificent Viola Davis, the cast is ridiculously stacked. The action is tremendous. And the ultimate message is devastating in its swift brutalityby Barry Hertz [Globe and Mail ]
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 offscreenby Joshua Rothkopf [Time Out New York ]
a stunning and impressively ballsy thriller from Steve McQueen, with a towering performance from Viola Davisby Linda Marric [HeyUGuys ]
"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 corruptionby Owen Gleiberman [Variety ]
"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 backboneReview rate : A- by Eric Kohn [Indiewire ]