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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:34
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: A biopic of the sex researcher is hailed as adventurous, clever, and subversive, with fine performances by Liam Neeson and Laura Linney.
Theatrical Release:Nov 12, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $10,214,647
Synopsis: Academy Award®-winning writer-director Bill Condon (GODS AND MONSTERS) turns the microscope on Alfred Kinsey in a drama that is at once a portrait of a man driven to uncover the most private... [More]
Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard
Director: Bill Condon
The great thing about Kinsey is the triumphant way it entertains, informs and electrifies us with the highest values of traditional cinema while opening our hearts and minds with the liberating potential of human diversity.
Top CriticThe biopic succumbs to a paint-by-numbers feel as it dutifully touches the highs and lows of a life that can't easily fit within two hours.
Top CriticOne heck of a flick, paying homage to an imperfect man whose impact on history may be substantial, and yet painting him as a clumsy, passionate fellow who's simply trying to figure things out.
Top CriticI can't imagine the performances, or much else, being improved on.
Top CriticIt's partly a scientific brief, partly a song of sex, and it's enormously enjoyable.
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Top Critic[Neeson] makes the movie better than it is by filling in the rough patches with a portrayal so committed, so nuanced, that this may be the role he's remembered for (and which may finally win him an Oscar).
Top CriticSucceeds, in part, because the film is as non-judgmental as the famed sex researcher himself.
Top CriticThere's a flatness to the filmmaking; what's needed here is a lot more va-va in its va-va-voom.
Top CriticA convincing picture of an America semiconsciously cowered in fear and ignorance about sexuality.
Top CriticThe humour is rich but never bawdy.
Top CriticIt's a film Kinsey himself might have appreciated: It's sober, never flashy or exciting but always engrossing, both for its penetration into Kinsey's psychology and for the effects his findings are shown to have on the world and the people around him.
Top CriticStraight from the first frames, writer-director Bill Condon adroitly tackles the problem that all biopics about accomplished people invariably bump up against: How to marry the life to the work, dramatizing one without slighting the other?
Top CriticNot only does Kinsey flow with the purpose of biographical narrative, it provides a compelling portrait of a momentous shift in American culture.
Top CriticCondon presents Kinsey's life in an upbeat fashion that's unafraid of the language of the conventional biopic. The subject is unconventional enough to eliminate any need for stylistic embellishment.
Top CriticThe strength of Kinsey is finally in the clarity it brings to its title character. It is fascinating to meet a complete original, a person of intelligence and extremes.
Top CriticCondon sketches in the sexually benighted pre-World War II era with amusing and alarming touches.
Top CriticAs Kinsey, the remarkable new film about his life, clearly reveals, there was more to the biologist in the bow tie than met the eye.
Top CriticNeeson, in soft, subtle ways, draws out his character's humanity -- and shows the passion that drove the man.
Top CriticWhether you see the man as a serpent bearing fruit or a beacon in the wilderness, it's hard to deny that Kinsey is a highly intelligent and thoroughly engaging film.
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