Widows served a staggering gut punch to the heist genre when it landed in theaters in 2018, and the brunt of its lesson hasn’t softened much in the intervening years. Heists have always been defined by their glamour; by the secondhand glee we get from watching unlikely heroes become outlaws. But when Steve McQueen teamed with Gone Girl scribe Gillian Flynn to take his own swing at the genre, he came away with a story that’s more like Set It Off than Ocean’s 8.
