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

He hires LA private detective Becky Altringer to ferret out the names of these people and, with stolid gumshoe work, she succeeds in breaking through the boards carefully built cloak of secrecy and uncovers the IDs of this clandestine elite. They submit a film for rating and are returned the box-office killing NC-17, without explanation or advice, leaving the filmmakers to guess what needs to be trimmed to get the much more acceptable R-rating. ... Full Review

The energy is infectious; This Film is anarchic, relevant, interested and interesting. But it is necessary to your education of how the movie system works; consider This Film Is Not Yet Rated a primer on one of the more interesting and controversial stories behind the stories. ... Full Review

Its not a perfect idea, but its the least judgmental.This Film Is Not Yet Rated does not shy away from the fact that Dick harbors ill feeling towards the MPAA. But even the good experiences serve to solidify Dicks case. ... Full Review

At once intelligent, funny, and provocative, THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED considers the power and the irrationality of the MPAA ratings board. As funny as some of these examples seem in this context, however, they do make the documentary's point that the board charged with protecting children is, according to Ansen, turning all viewers into children. ... Full Review

The true test will be whether the movie will cause the organization to take a look at its own mission and policies, recognize there are problems, and revise how things are done. The investigation into the raters identities is quite interesting and makes up the real plot of the documentary. ... Full Review

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

The MPAA ratings system is totally screwed up, as everyone other than the MPAA itself knows. Savvy moviegoers have figured out the bizarre system of morality employed by the MPAA and have learned to disregard it as irrelevant at best,... ... 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

I absolutly loved this film.This is the stuff i live for. This film showes us just how powerful the movie rating system (MPAA) truly is. It showes us how we need to make our own desition and not let... ... Full Article

If the cinema artist (or really, even cinema fan) can claim one true enemy, that enemy would have to be the MPAA, or, the Motion Picture Association of America. ... Full Article