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This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Documentary

2006, Movie, 1h 38min

Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.

Country: United States,United Kingdom

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Reviews

Critic David Parkinson

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Packed with amusing graphics, animated sequences and damning testimonies, this is a landmark denunciation of Hollywood infantilisation and protectionism.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Scott Tobias

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Here's an agency controlled by the studios that arrogantly refuses to address its hypocrisies or even open its doors to scrutiny.

Read full review at The A.V. Club

Critic Roger Ebert

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After seeing This Film Is Not Yet Rated, you may find yourself thinking a government censorship board, of the kind that exists today in parts of Canada or the U.K., isn't such a bad idea.

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Critic Marjorie Baumgarten

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Their stake-outs and reconnaissance missions make for very entertaining and engaging cinema.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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This documentary delves into the mysterious and controversial process of film rating by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), exposing the organization's biases and inconsistencies. The filmmaker hires a private investigator to conduct an experiment, challenging the archaic and puritanical system that can make or break a movie's success. With a focus on sex and violence, the documentary questions whether certain studios receive preferential treatment and reveals the MPAA's underhanded efforts to control culture.

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This Film Is Not Yet Rated was released in theaters on January 26, 2006.