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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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“Kinsey” ist wieder einer dieser Filme die zwar recht interessant, aber leider auch recht langatmig sind. Der Film erreicht mit seinen 113 Minuten zwar noch nicht mal eine Laufzeit von zwei Stunden, fühlt sich aber an wie ein drei Stunden Werk. Diesen Umstand finde ich ein wenig schade, denn die Studien die Alfred Kinsey durchführt sind äußerst aufschlussreich und auch die Reaktionen des konservativen Amerikas auf Kinseys Forschungsergebnisse können fesseln.
Wenn man sich allerdings auf “Kinsey” einlässt bekommt man einen…
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Neeson, Linney and Sarsgaard are each really well-cast here and have appropriate chemistry with each other. A good, adult story with a touch of whimsy. Nice Lynn Redgrave cameo too. The film's light touch is critical to maintain the idea of being more relaxed about sex.
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A well-crafted, well-acted biopic that valuably opens up dialogue about an often still taboo subject. It's interesting to compare different countries' age ratings of this film - US: R (17), UK: 15, Germany: 12, Malaysia: banned. Wanted to watch this after seeing Far From Heaven to see a less stylised, more relatable depiction of American society in the 1950s.
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Affecting, classy biopic with Liam Neeson playing the trailblazing lead character as a likeable, hectoring sex nerd. Plenty of conventional beats formally speaking, but no problem when it's done well. Good on America's fear of sex in public life. Lovely, lovely supporting turn from Peter Saarsgard as Kinsey's lover/guinea-pig/dear friend.
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I first saw this movie when I was 14. I HATED it. I thought it was utterly boring, Liam Neeson's performance kind of scared me and, as a teenage girl, I had a much different approach to sex than I have now. Having said that, I rewatched it last year, seven years apart from that first time. I absolutely LOVED it. Neeson is fantastic and the screenplay is one of best I have ever seen. I wouldn't say it is a must-see film for everyone, but it became one of my favorites ever.
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The air of mundanity seems engineered to disable the melodrama, which it barely does; The worst thing, though, is how impotent it makes major turning points in Kinsey's life seem. Neeson is a terrific performer, now able to capably walk off with a movie; The best scenes find him passionately slogging away at his twin books on the male and female sexual experience. Condon is barely able to fuse these discoveries of academia to the discoveries of the flesh, making…
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"The story of Alfred Kinsey is more than interesting, but I found this a soulless account of his life and work."
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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its been educational
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I agree with the Academy's recognition of Liam Neeson and Laura Linney's work with Oscar nominations (I was impressed with Peter Skarsgaard as well). Overall, this is a rather straightforward (straight indeed) biopic of the extremely straightforward Kinsey in the 1940s and 1950s when he was working toward his first publication about human sexuality. And while that topic should be worthy of a biopic, I found that the film did not fully capture the controversy that was, at the time,…