Widows

Widows (2018) is Steve McQueen's crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. In Chicago, a heist goes sideways, and four veteran robbers burn up in a van alongside the cash they stole, gunned down by police.

Their wives barely knew one another before. Now each inherits a two-million-dollar debt that a ruthless crime boss intends to collect. Veronica, the ringleader's widow, finds his notebook with blueprints for one last job and pitches the others on finishing what their husbands started. A schoolteacher, a boutique owner and a recent immigrant learn to load a gun. Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki and Cynthia Erivo play women with nothing left to lose, surrounded by Colin Farrell, Liam Neeson, Daniel Kaluuya and Robert Duvall.

McQueen, the director of 12 Years a Slave, stages the robbery as a cross-section of a fractured city: an aldermanic election, racial fault lines, dirty money from local dynasties. He wrote the script with Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), reworking Lynda La Plante's old British series. A single shot mounted on a car hood says more about Chicago politics than any speech could. Stream Widows (2018) online on iFILM.