Hidden Figures's reviews
Media reviews
Time
Hidden Figures, both a dazzling piece of entertainment and a window into history, bucks the trend of the boring-math-guy movie.
The Washington Post
This bracing movie...gets off to a spirited start and rarely lets up, sharing with viewers a little-known chapter of history as inspiring as it is intriguing.
Rolling Stone
Lots of movies are labeled as "inspirational" ? Hidden Figures truly earns the right to the term.
Roger Ebert
This is one of the year's best films.
The Guardian
Hidden Figures is a bouncy, almost garish feelgood girl pic. A movie that knows right from wrong and doesn?t see any use in complicating matters.
New York Times
From one scene to the next, you may know more or less what is coming, but it is never less than delightful to watch these actors at work.
The New Yorker
A crucial episode of the nineteen-sixties, centered on both the space race and the civil-rights struggle, comes to light in this energetic and impassioned drama.
The Wrap
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.
Variety
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.
The Hollywood Reporter
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.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote