Liam Neeson is extremely convincing as pioneering sex study Dr. Alfred Kinsey in this open and honest film for the art houses. Kinsey is the tale of a brilliant scientist redefining sex in America at a time when masturbation was widely believed to cause blindness. How far we’ve come in our pro-abstinence society that teaches children that AIDS is spread through sweat, and that abortion causes sterility and suicide. Ironically, the science that made Kinsey taboo in 1947 is still today deemed off-color content as many boycotted Fox Searchlight for releasing this film.

Nearly indigestible irony aside the film stands alone easily with superior supporting roles played by Laura Linney, Oliver Platt, and Peter Sarsgaard. The movie bravely doesn’t hesitate to discuss Kinsey’s disputed techniques, family problems, homosexuality, and complete lack of understanding of humans as anything but animals to be tallied, all while keeping the mood melancholic with well timed humorous dialogue.

Though this film is very good, sadly I doubt our over-sexed under-churched and sin-satiated generation will have enough reasons to make Kinsey a hit. Frontal nudity and numerous sexual situations? Enough to earn a boycott, but not nearly enough to hit the mainstream.