Widows (2018)

"Left with nothing. Capable of anything."
Audience Score
65
Review Score
60
Widows
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.
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'Widows' Movie Review

Heist movies are often compelling because of their mechanics -- the thrill (and spectacle) of watching crooks dismantle a system, outsmart the law and escape with their lives, and bounty, intact. Steve McQueen’s “Widows” offers a lot of superficial window dressing to make his heist unique -- the fact that the would-be perpetrators are the wives of “real” thieves -- but what’s compelling, even riveting, about his film is not how they are pulling it off, but why.

Bolstered by an impressive ensemble including Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Daniel Kaluuya, and Liam Neeson, “Widows” brings to irresistible life the determination, and desperation, of four women struggling to control their own fate within a system built upon, and preoccupied by, its own greed, corruption, and indifference.

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Movie Details

Theatrical Release:November 16th, 2018 - Buy Tickets
On DVD & Blu-ray:February 5th, 2019 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$42,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$73,900,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Sue Bruce-Smith, Bergen Swanson, Rose Garnett, Daniel Battsek
Production Companies:New Regency Pictures, See-Saw Films, Film4 Productions, Lammas Park, Regency Enterprises