Stellar!

Rating: 9/10 (15 January 2017)

Based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, 'Hidden Figures' is an important & honest film about a true-story, that's inspiring as well as affecting. And the performances, are uniformly excellent!
'Hidden Figures' Synopsis: A team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program's first successful space missions.
'Hidden Figures' is about encouraging talent & rising above racial discrimination. You watch 3 colored women struggle, work hard & eventually triumph. And their journey as one, is explored with unmistakable honesty.
Allison Schroeder & Theodore Melfi's Adapted Screenplay is excellent. Theodore Melfi's Direction, also, is top-notch. Cinematography is superb. Editing is nicely done, as well. Art & Costume Design take us back in time, flawlessly. Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams & Benjamin Wallfisch's Score is solid.
Performance-Wise: Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Goble Johnson, Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughan & Janelle Monáe as Mary Jackson, are fabulous. Taraji, especially, brings fabulous layers to her part & dominates the show. Kevin Costner as Al Harrison, director of the Space Task Group, is reliably remarkable, enacting a meaty role with flourish. Its been really long since the Academy acknowledged Costner, so why not this year? Kirsten Dunst as Vivian Mitchell, is first-rate. Jim Parsons as Paul Stafford, is nicely cast against type & he's sensational. Mahershala Ali as Jim Johnson, is wonderfully restrained. Others lend support.
On the whole, 'Hidden Figures' is Stellar!