Steve McQueen is a master of artful, searing dramas about fraught masculinity and suffering. Gillian Flynn is known for her twisty page-turners led by complex women carrying the burdens of trauma. Those two many not seem like the most likely of collaborators, but we get a beautiful marriage of their talents with Widows, a crowd-pleasing heist thriller with plenty on its mind.
David Gordon Green’s ‘Halloween’ sequel picks up 40 years after the John Carpenter classic for one final showdown between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode.