Kinsey is a biopic that does not conspire to paint an immaculate, saintly, and ultimately one-dimensional portrait of its subject. |
Fact and fiction are welded so that the genre of the biopic has no meaning in the canons of joined-up cinema. |
This biopic about a legendary Thai xylophonist's beautifully shot, but that's about all that can be legitimately praised. |
This is no great film, but to treat it like some made-for-TV biopic of an unknown Midwestern gangster and his ditzy moll is itself a crime. |
But it soon abandons easy-listening hipness and becomes a heavy-handed biopic about a tormented genius. |
It is, perhaps, an appropriate time to release a cinematic biopic on the life of Alfred Kinsey at the moment. |