6. 16 April, Widows (2018)

Steve McQueen delivers an outstanding thriller. “Our lives are in danger; our husbands aren’t coming back; we’re on our own”. Transposing Lynda La Plante’s groundbreaking TV series from 80s London to present-day Chicago, this latest from 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen is an empowering, electrifying thriller with an ensemble cast to die for. It follows a disparate group of women who are forced to pick up the criminal baton from their recently deceased husbands. Intelligent, engrossing and fiercely emotional (without resort to sentimentality), Widows is a sinewy treat that seamlessly intertwines close-up character studies, big-picture politics and audaciously reimagined heist-movie riffs.