This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Ever wonder who the people are who decide the ratings of films? You know the G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17? I'd personally not thought that much about it simply because I could care less what a film is rated.... Full review

Since the Hays Code, filmmakers have had a lot more freedom over the content of their films. However, the MPAA ratings board still does exercise a certain de facto censorship power. Most people do not realize this. "This Film is... Full review

America is the land of the free, so in order to constrain people to do what you want them to do, you have to let them think it's their choice. How do you do that? You create a completely anonymous... Full review

A look into the mysterious organization that decides what rating a film is given. And all sorts of other issues/arguments that are created because of it. Numerous actors, directors, producers, former MPAA raters and critics share their thoughts on the... Full review

Fast paced, absorbing, at times comical exposé of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) film rating system. While it is in name a "voluntary" system, i.e., a filmmaker can choose whether to submit a film to MPAA for rating... Full review

Kirby Dick is a filmmaker I wasn't aware of before This Film is Noy Yet Rated, but now he is assuredly on my radar, if only for the determination in pulling off his main idea. Like Super Size Me, this... Full review

Ever been curious about the American film rating system? Then Kirby Dick's This Film Is Not Yet Rated is perfect. It does to US censorship what Michael Moore has done to others: it makes everyone look like jackasses, mainly because... Full review

This movie is informative, but also funny and clever and kind of mind-blowing. It's not for the faint of heart because it contains quite a bit of graphic footage to illustrate the point that the ratings board is totally arbitrary... Full review

The film rating system in this country is governed by a secret panel created by the major film studios more than 35 years ago. Since its inception the MPAA ratings board has functioned as a sort of 'black box' where... Full review

This is a documentary about the US ratings system. It argues the same grievances that independent film makers have been complaining about for years. Specifically, that independent films are given less guidance than studios (which own the MPAA), that homosexual... Full review

while indie films get rubber-stamped decisions and rejections.....the case of Harron's film, was perfectly okay.....He talked to the usual suspects, outraged filmmakers like John Waters, Kevin Smith and Canada's Atom Egoyan and Mary Harron, who have all felt the MPAA's lash.....Yet it employs a movie ratings system that approves horrific scenes of violence.... ... Full Review

This Film is Not Yet Rated is terrific, and infuriating, and opens here Friday. ... Full Review

If anything, Dick's gimmicks detract from what could have been a more compelling film....The Kafkaesque absurdity behind the movie ratings is beyond belief..... ... Full Review

And it's the degree of corruption that makes "This Film" so shocking. I don't agree with some of the conclusions "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" comes to when exploring how to solve the problem of the MPAA , but I still think this movie is important viewing for anyone who has bought a movie ticket based on a movie's MPAA rating. ... Full Review

Dick's mission is to shine the light of truth on the formerly anonymous members of the ratings board, a goal he achieves, even if the rest of the film feels a little too superficial to be genuinely revolutionary. Kirby Dick's doc will likely stir up some passionate responses ... Full Review

K irby Dick's "Outrage" examines, with welcome ferocity, a subject the mainstream media often ignores: the gay sexuality of closeted and often married political figures. ... Full Article

Well, I end the year with a mea culpa : I should have read the New Republic piece about Holocaust survivor Herman Rosenblat before piping up to defend him. ... Full Article

I imagine that pretty much anyone who frequents this site has a chip on their shoulder about the MPAA . I think that with the exception of only a few lazy parents out there, most people think the MPAA makes... ... Full Article

As is made abundantly clear in This Film Is Not Yet Rated , the US movie industry is all about getting teenage bums on seats. ... Full Article

"This Film Is Not Yet Rated", which was stamped with a NC-17 rating as well as many others, is a documentary that centers on the MPAA rating system. ... Full Article

Making independent movies at all is something of a noble but foolish crusade. In "This Film Is Not Yet Rated," director Kirby Dick estimates that 95 percent of commercial movie-theater screens in the United States show only pictures made by... ... Full Article