New York Magazine (Vulture) by
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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United States, Germany · 2004
Rated R · 1h 58m
Director Bill Condon
Starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard
Genre Drama
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Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.
New York Magazine (Vulture) by
It's a new Neeson as Dr. Alfred Kinsey, all spiky-haired and harried, and he's enormously appealing in the role.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
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.
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.
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.
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
This is a fine motion picture with a couple of superlative performances. It is arguably the best, most honest bio-pic of the year.
Chicago Reader by Jonathan 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.
The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen
One of the year's most satisfying films.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Scrappy, funny, hot-to-trot biopic.
For a film about man who spent half his life defying staid convention, Kinsey remains as timid as a choirboy.
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A chronicle of the love affair between tempestuous Spanish mistress Vellini and distinguished, well-bred Ryno de Marigny, set in 19th-century France.
Martha, the head chef at a chic restaurant, must reevaluate her life and priorities when a fateful accident brings her niece to her doorstep.
A small-time thief from Belfast is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that killed several people.
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