Movie Reviews: Widows; Juliet, Naked and Peterloo

Widows: Five stars Juliet, Naked: Four stars Peterloo: Three stars

Widows [rating]5[/rating]

Obliged to make good on a $2 million debt when their criminal husbands are killed during a botched robbery, the Widows (16s) — Veronica (Viola Davis), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Alice (Elizabeth Debicki) — come together to consider Veronica’s audacious proposal: that they form a gang and steal the $2m they ‘owe’ by following plans left behind by Veronica’s husband, Harry (Liam Neeson). Set in contemporary Chicago, and adapted from Lynda LaPlante’s bestseller by Gillian Flynn and Steve McQueen, with McQueen directing, Widows is a gripping thriller that up-ends the conventions of the heist-gone-wrong crime flick.