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Widows is a nail-biter and suspenseful until the very ending. After it was over, I wanted to experience that ride all over again.

Yet if the story's political, racial and gender subtext sometimes acts as a drag on the action, it gives the film a depth and richness other films of the genre often lack.

A pitch-perfect demonstration of an auteurist director demonstrating his singular vision in a more mainstream canvas.

"Widows" resembles an urban expose like "The Wire" more than a caper romp like "Ocean's 8." It's much tougher, grittier, literally a matter of life and death. Tone is everything in a movie and, in this one, McQueen sticks to it brilliantly.

It's a rare experience when you watch a film that you didn't want to end, and it's not every day where I call out something that merits five stars. But this is a five-star film, continuing McQueen's outstanding record in filmmaking.