Widows

Get bent: music, film, books and more about corruption

From murky goings-on within Fifa to warring media scions, our critics select culture that delights in degradation

Jonathan Jones, Sam Jordison, Rebecca Liu, Hollie Richardson and Jenessa Williams

12, Sep, 2022 @9:00 AM

Merry widows? How attitudes to bereaved women have changed

Societies around the world have always had a problem with a wife who belongs to no one. But what does the term even mean in the modern era?

Louisa Young

25, Jun, 2022 @2:00 PM

The Harder They Fall to Widows: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Jonathan Majors squares up against Idris Elba in a fun, gritty western, and Viola Davis shines in Steve McQueen’s heist caper

Simon Wardell

29, Oct, 2021 @8:00 AM

Women have yet to achieve pension equality | Letters

Letters: The system fails to take in to account the contribution women make through non-paid work, writes one reader

Letters

07, Mar, 2021 @6:08 PM

Is Liam Neeson cancelled? Of course not - he's played this character for years

The actor has clearly examined his conscience since he went looking for revenge after a friend of his was raped years ago

Steve Rose

06, Feb, 2019 @4:43 PM

My Oscar goes to... Our film critics reveal their personal shortlists

Ahead of the official Academy nominations, the Observer’s critics pick their own winners

Mark Kermode, Wendy Ide, Simran Hans and Guy Lodge

20, Jan, 2019 @9:00 AM

Bafta nominations 2019: The Favourite is queen but Steve McQueen snubbed

Offbeat period drama starring Olivia Colman scores 12 nods, while Bohemian Rhapsody, Roma, A Star is Born and First Man all trail with seven

Catherine Shoard

09, Jan, 2019 @7:55 AM

Steve McQueen: 'I experience racism every day'

The director’s Widows is the Guardian’s eighth best film of the year. He explains why some male white critics didn’t really get it

Catherine Shoard

20, Dec, 2018 @7:00 AM

Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018

Guardian writers pick their favourite bits of cinema from the year all the way from a vomiting Oscar Wilde in The Happy Prince to a terrifying accident in Hereditary

Jordan Hoffman, Jake Nevins, Zach Vasquez, Pamela Hutchinson, Steve Rose, Benjamin Lee, Catherine Shoard, Amy Nicholson, Gwilym Mumford, Andrew Pulver, Peter Bradshaw, Charles Bramesco, Wendy Ide and Guy Lodge

14, Dec, 2018 @8:00 AM

The 50 best films of 2018 in the UK: No 8 – Widows

Steve McQueen’s heist drama is starry, sleek and majestically composed, with an emotional depth that sets it apart

Catherine Shoard

12, Dec, 2018 @6:00 AM

The 50 best films of 2018 in the US: No 10 – Widows

Steve McQueen’s heist drama is starry, sleek and majestically composed, with an emotional depth that sets it apart

Catherine Shoard

10, Dec, 2018 @12:00 PM

And the 2018 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw's films of the year

Guardian Film’s official best of the year list – voted for by a panel of reviewers, writers and editors - is into the final furlong. Meanwhile, here are our chief critic’s personal picks

Peter Bradshaw

10, Dec, 2018 @10:08 AM