Henson, Octavio Spencer and Janelle Monáe are terrific in this feel-good family movie about a group of black female mathematicians who worked at NASA during the 1960s. “The Founder” (PG-13): Michael Keaton stars as McDonald’s empresario Ray Kroc, who turned a Southern California burger joint into a billion-dollar business.
Once a star baseball player forced by segregation to play in the Negro League, the aging patriarch is harshest on his sons (Russell Hornsby, Jovan Adepo) whose optimism disturbs him deeply. He plays a charismatic, funny, energetic but equally embittered Pittsburgh garbage collector who derides anyone, including his wife Rose (Viola Davis) and his best friend (Stephen Henderson) who suggest life has improved for African Americans since the Civil War. Fences” (PG-13): August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece about a working class African American family in the 1950s, is transformed into a compelling, searing film in the hands of producer, director and star Denzel Washington.
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