Hidden Figures (2016)
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We Got This Covered Robert Yaniz Jr.
While Hidden Figures hits many of the beats one would expect, Melfi's film strikes a delicate balance of injecting levity within the character-based historical drama that propels the story forward.
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TheWrap Alonso Duralde
Hidden Figures is feel-good history, but it works, and it works on behalf of heroes from a cinematically under-served community. These smart accomplished women had the right stuff, and so does this movie.
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The Playlist Rodrigo Perez
A paean to the unsung, Hidden Figures is also a romanticized tribute to everyday problem solvers who, in the movie's eyes, are their own kind of superheroes.
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Variety Peter Debruge
Hidden Figures is empowerment cinema at its most populist, and one only wishes that the film had existed at the time it depicts - though ongoing racial tensions and gender double-standards suggest that perhaps we haven't come such a long way, baby.
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The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden
The fine, spirited work of Taraji P. Henson, Spencer and Janelle Monae as irresistible rooting interests, as well as Kevin Costner's winningly lived-in turn as the head of Langley's Space Task Group, deepen a film that's propelled by sitcommy beats and expository dialogue.
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Movie Nation Roger Moore
Warm and witty performances by Spencer, Hensen and Monae, the stoic moral stature Costner plays and unlikable-until-they're-reasonable turns by Dunst and Parsons make Hidden Figures a winner, a piece of unknown history rendered flesh and blood funny, uplifting and never less than entertaining.
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Slant Magazine Elise Nakhnikian
The central characters' dogged refusal to cede their places on a team that keeps trying to reject them is a moving display of heroism.
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New York Daily News Stephen Whitty
Hidden Figures is an earnest movie, but not a very exciting one. The screenplay feels as engineered as a Gemini rocket launch, with every scene and line carefully calculated.
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Screen International Tim Grierson
Everything in Hidden Figures is smoothly efficient but also a little anticlimactic and frictionless - the story's happy ending a little too easily achieved.
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Indiewire Eric Kohn
At a time when calls for diverse media dominate the industry, Hidden Figures hedges its bets with a family-friendly commercial solution: warm and fuzzy storytelling that's both progressive and safe.
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