Small-town life is upended when 17 children vanish in the middle of the night in Weapons. At a school meeting, Justine insists she had nothing to do with what happened, but no one seems to believe her. I’m guessing this was very much by design, since Madigan herself has a late-breaking but memorable role in Weapons. Like that film, but on an even more ambitious scale, Weapons is about the dark underbelly of American suburbia and unfolds from the perspectives of multiple characters, sometimes replaying the same events from new angles. 17 children vanish into the night — ‘Weapons’ is terrific and terrifying Weapons is a story about a community recovering from an inexplicable trauma that arrives like a natural disaster, wreaks havoc, and then cannot be reversed, only survived.