Avis Metacritic

One of the year's most satisfying films.

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.

Scrappy, funny, hot-to-trot biopic.

Lively, sometimes funny and, inevitably, provocative.

This is a fine motion picture with a couple of superlative performances. It is arguably the best, most honest bio-pic of the year.

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.

It's a new Neeson as Dr. Alfred Kinsey, all spiky-haired and harried, and he's enormously appealing in the role.

For a film about man who spent half his life defying staid convention, Kinsey remains as timid as a choirboy.

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.

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.