This is Conventional Oscar Storytelling 101, a nicely packaged inspirational story that doesn’t take many risks because it has no intention of doing so. There’s your usual irritatingly on-the-nose dialogue, your usual character stereotypes, your usual hokey scenes complete with a gradually swelling score as the walls of prejudice crumble. It’s all very nice and well made, but it has the makings of an extremely bland movie. Thankfully, Hidden Figures manages to still take that formula and turn it into something worth watching.
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