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...fight for our right to talk about sex, not to mention the right to legally recognize homosexual relationships or the right to have basic reproductive biology in schools. So it’s no surprise that the Fox Searchlight movie Kinsey—a film about Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the scientist who pioneered the discussion of sex in America—opened last month to widespread critical acclaim and, of course, stinging conservative condemnation...
...time moviemaker has directed so many films that cogently explore the language of sex. But it suggests that the rest of Hollywood isn't really trying. The occasional indie movie of today might have a warmly erotic scene (as inP.S.) or portray adults seduced and baffled by sexual possibilities (Kinsey), but mature audacity is in pretty short supply. Seeing Closer, teetering from empathy with to disapproval of each of its characters, a moviegoer has to wonder, Why can't there be a dozen, a hundred, films like this? Where's the good and bad sex in movies...
...women, men and men pair off for in-depth research. So do Alfred and Clara. But the prof sees the escapades simply as tutorials, unrelated to matters of the heart. "The bond we have, the life we share," he tells Clara, "sex is nothing compared to that." Kinsey's audiences will come in thinking about sex and go out thinking about love...
...made a bolder, hornier film, but then it wouldn't have been true to the man and, especially, his time. The movie wants to entertain and educate, not leer, about people flummoxed by participating in a revolution they had meant only to calibrate, and at that it succeeds handsomely. Kinsey is like its hero's work: an enlightening lecture on a naughty subject, briskly delivered by a nice gent in a bow tie. --By Richard Corliss
...KINSEY: All sex, no leering...