by Jason Ankeny Kinsey reunites filmmaker Bill Condon and composer Carter Burwell, continuing the austere, profoundly melancholy approach introduced via their previous collaboration Gods and Monsters. Performed by a small ensemble of musicians on loan from the New York Philharmonic, the score is exquisitely nuanced, creating deeply romantic music that operates via uncommonly intellectual terms. Burwell keeps passion in check, instead favoring minimalist melodies that play their emotions close to the vest--like the famous sexuality research the film profiles, Kinsey is human yet clinical, exploring the physical within the framework of the cerebral.