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A biopic of the sex researcher is hailed as adventurous, clever, and subversive, with fine performances by Liam Neeson and Laura Linney.
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A biopic of the sex researcher is hailed as adventurous, clever, and subversive, with fine performances by Liam Neeson and Laura Linney.
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Alfred Kinsey was an entomologist who taught at Indiana University and had a keen interest in an area of human behavior that had seen little scholarly research -- human sexuality. While the courtship and reproductive patterns of animals had been carefully documented, Kinsey believed that most "established facts" about human sexual behavior were a matter of conjecture rather than research and that what most people said about their sex lives was not born out by the evidence (a subject that had
Nov 12, 2004 Wide
May 17, 2005
$10.2M
Fox Searchlight Pictures
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It's delightfully playful for a serious movie, balancing glib wit against its pathos and controversy.
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.
The 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.
The remarkable Liam Neeson does an affectingly self-effacing turn in the title role.
One 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.
I can't imagine the performances, or much else, being improved on.
Great movie, but not for kids.
Granted, it's a stretch watching Neeson as a young man being talked down to Lithgow playing his father, but you get past that once you see the good performances by the excellent cast.
"Kinsey" is itself a sex education movie that uses historical fact and personal stories to articulate things that statistics can't reveal, like the uniqueness of every individual's imagination.
I urge you to go see this film when it comes to a theater near you -- not only to enjoy a well made film, but also to send a message that there ain't nothing wrong with a little bump and grind.
Performances are excellent, and the period look is impeccable, but Condon's worshipful tone makes the movie an exercise in unconscious irony: an utterly conventional biography of an utterly unconventional man.
He's a terribly flawed man but instead of soapy histrionics, Condon underlines the tragedy with outrageous humour.
Notable for encompassing a man committed in the extreme to the uninhibited, matter of fact scrutiny of sexuality, even if open and exposed like a wound.
The saddening thing about Kinsey is that it's no longer as funny as it would have been just a few years ago.
Notable for encompassing a man committed in the extreme to the uninhibited, matter of fact scrutiny of sexuality, even if open and exposed like a wound.
Kinsey is a hagiographic tribute to the man who helped make possible the emerging do-whatever-you-want orthodoxy of our own times.
It's not the movie's job to give you steadfast answers, and even Kinsey's research was statistically skewed to a certain extent, but it does feed into an intellectual voyeurism that keeps you going for the film's full 118-minute running time
The shame is that the film doesn't convey more mess or danger; its sex and its politics are almost entirely dinner-table-friendly.
Liam Neeson somehow knits Kinsey's qualities together in a likeable human pattern.
Great acting, some really fun moments. It's not going to rock your world, but it might nudge it a little.
April 19, 2007Super Reviewer
A biographical film concerning the findings, research, and life of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist and entomologist who turned his attention to the science of sex when the nation was still knee deep in the Cold War. Kinsey opened the American public up to a great deal of factual information that changed lives, saved
November 6, 2011Super Reviewer
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