A smooth, elegant docudrama...well-groomed, handsomely mounted and adroitly laid out,...but ultimately--like its subject--a trifle schoolmasterish.
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11/16/04
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Kinsey (2004)
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Reviews Counted:179
Fresh:162
Rotten:17
Average Rating:7.7/10
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
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Reviews for Kinsey
Occasionally melodramatic but extremely well-made.
11/15/04
Top CriticKinsey's many contradictions and awkward personality get full attention from Condon's clever treatment and Liam Neeson's best screen performance in years.
11/15/04
'Kinsey' presents a fascinating look at a man few people today know about, but it's not for everyone.
11/15/04
You gotta hand it to writer-director Bill Condon. It takes something special to have such fine actors, a subject matter that is purely sex, and make them this boring.
11/14/04
"Kinsey" seem like a generic film, which is a hard trick considering the subject matter: sex.
11/14/04
Instead of approaching the radical and groundbreaking scientist with an equally innovative spirit, Condon's film opts for the generic trademarks of biopic melodrama.
11/14/04
Kinsey is ambitious, providing enough details to suggest how complex Kinsey was, as a public and private persona, but it's not entirely satisfying as a biopic.
11/14/04
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11/13/04
Needless to say, the world is changed in ways we’re still trying to figure out…. and where does love fit into all this? You’ll have to see the film to find out.
11/13/04
Condon would like the audience to identify with his protagonist, despite his flaws, but he might have elicited greater empathy by focusing more on his subject than his subject's message.
11/13/04
You don't need to know much about the real Kinsey to sense that the one we're getting here is both more palatable and less interesting than the real thing.
11/12/04
Top CriticCondon deserves credit for shaking up the usual biopic formula, modeling his narrative structure after Kinsey's famous sex interviews with the scientist himself (Liam Neeson) answering questions about his own sexual history.
11/12/04
Condon once again proves himself to be a consummate ringmaster of thought provoking material, clever casting and spectacular performances by atypical leading men.
11/12/04
A $10-million movie that looks like it was made by Hollywood's biggest spendthrift, Kinsey is full of delicately wrought moments.
11/12/04
Top CriticThough it's perhaps the least salacious major movie ever made about sex, the biopic Kinsey is hardly clinical -- it's as purely entertaining as it is thought-provoking and timely.
11/12/04
Top CriticKinsey is not easy to like as a person, but Condon has done such a good job of filling in the doctor's psychological backstory that we understand his single-minded determination to suss out every last detail of human sexuality.
11/12/04
Top CriticWhatever you might think about Kinsey's research methods and findings, Kinsey succeeds marvelously in its depiction of how his pioneering work sent shock waves into 1950s America.
11/12/04
This is a delightful trip back to a simpler -- and certainly more uptight -- time. You decide how much we're better off for it.
11/12/04
Kinsey does its subjects -- human, biological and psychological -- justice.
11/12/04
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