Historical films should serve to reanimate the past with honesty, insight and a certain degree of entertainment,Bill Condon's Kinsey is a preeminent example of this, and it also has the uncommon distinction of real, unadulterated accuracy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 13, 2021

With honesty, frankness and explicit authenticity Kinsey becomes one of 2004's best pictures.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

For a movie so frank and explicit, Kinsey has a soft spirit...Kinsey is a celebration of diversity; it's about the solace knowledge can bring.

| Mar 13, 2018

"Kinsey," like the pioneering sex researcher profiled therein, reduces its subject to a bit of a dry academic exercise.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 5, 2015

A seriously by-the-numbers biopic...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 1, 2012

Great movie, but not for kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Fascinating as well as entertaining...

| Apr 29, 2009

"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.

| Original Score: A | Apr 18, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 8.8/10 | Feb 27, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

He's a terribly flawed man but instead of soapy histrionics, Condon underlines the tragedy with outrageous humour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2008

The saddening thing about "Kinsey" is that it's no longer as funny as it would have been just a few years ago.

| Original Score: A | Aug 4, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

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.

Full Review | Mar 23, 2007

As an introduction to one of the 20th century's most polarizing personalities, Condon's picture pushes all the right buttons.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 22, 2006

Kinsey is a hagiographic tribute to the man who helped make possible the emerging do-whatever-you-want orthodoxy of our own times.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

The shame is that the film doesn't convey more mess or danger; its sex and its politics are almost entirely dinner-table-friendly.

| Feb 9, 2006

Liam Neeson somehow knits Kinsey's qualities together in a likeable human pattern.

| Jan 17, 2006

Neeson gives one of his best performances and is -- you'll forgive the expression -- as loose as he's ever been in a role, while Linney turns in another effortless performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005