Kinsey Critic Reviews

The 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.Read the full review

One of the year's most satisfying films.Read the full review

Kinsey is patient and educational and never (darn it) rude or shocking.Read the full review

Mr. Condon's great achievement is to turn Kinsey's complicated and controversial career into a grand intellectual drama.Read the full review

Intelligently written and directed with a pleasing frankness by Bill Condon and well played by Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and a strong supporting cast, the film skillfully uses the forms of old Hollywood to tell a story that would have given heart failure to Harry Cohn and his fellow tycoons.Read the full review

A stupendously moving film. Neeson nails Kinsey's rock-hard decency and fragile ego, and Linney abets him beautifully: There isn't an actress in movies right now who's more simply alive.Read the full review

Liam Neeson has never had a richer character to play on screen -- including his landmark role in "Schindler's List" -- and has never displayed such formidable energy and virtuosity.Read the full review

As superbly crafted -- as good -- as this movie is, Condon never really owns up to the cloud of pessimism at its center.Read the full review

Linney is a match for Neeson, and the only thing that might keep Lithgow from getting a supporting-Oscar nomination is the brevity of the part.Read the full review