McQueen's 'Widows' so consistently funny that flaws hardly matter; Toronto film festival: British filmmaker honours series while imprinting his own visual stamp

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  • Author(s): By:Donald Clarke
  • Source:
    Irish Times: Web Edition Articles (Dublin, Ireland), September 15, 2018 Film, 4pp
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    • Abstract:
      It is interesting to note that barely a single US review of Steve McQueen's indecently entertaining Widows has mentioned Lynda La Plante. For older Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) attendees from the other side of the Atlantic, La Plante's source TV series was a defining cultural event of the 1980s (all big hair and rough-hewn capitalism)...