The movie's strength lies in its portrayal of a many-sided genius, as manipulative as he was charming and persuasive, monomaniacal to a fault, generous and sweet yet utterly clueless about the emotional havoc he wrought in the name of science.
The movie's style is fairly staid, but it's hard to imagine how Neeson could be better, and the subject is handled with taste and tact.
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New York Magazine (Vulture)
New York Magazine (Vulture)
It's a new Neeson as Dr. Alfred Kinsey, all spiky-haired and harried, and he's enormously appealing in the role.
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The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
For a film about man who spent half his life defying staid convention, Kinsey remains as timid as a choirboy.
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Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Opening too late for the election but still one the year's most politically relevant movies, Condon's earnestly middlebrow biopic is an argument for tolerance and diversity.
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Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Apart from some unexaggerated notations about American puritanism in the 1940s and '50s, this is more a work of exploration than a thesis, and Condon mainly avoids sensationalism.