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This Film is Not Yet Rated (2005)

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 116
Fresh: 97 | Rotten: 19

A fascinating and entertaining film that will open many eyes to the often-questioned tactics of the MPAA and their ratings sytem.

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Average Rating: 7/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 7

A fascinating and entertaining film that will open many eyes to the often-questioned tactics of the MPAA and their ratings sytem.

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In a rare and refreshing reversal of roles, filmmakers put the powerful Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA for short) under the microscope for inspection in Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick's incisive look at stateside cinema's most notorious non-censoring censors. Compelled by the staggering amount of power that the MPAA ratings board wields, the filmmaker seeks out the true identities of the anonymous elite who control what films make it to the multiplex. He even goes so

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A movie that is at once eye-opening and hilarious.

January 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment (1)
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a head-spinning mystery, a brisk history of motion picture censorship in the U.S. and entertaining, often hilarious, visual proof of Hollywood's hypocrisy in his latest film.

January 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment (1)
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It makes a good case for some all-American free enterprise to come up with an alternative.

December 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Associated Press | Comment (1)
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...A ringing indictment of a system that's not just broken. It's rigged and needs replacing.

December 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment (1)
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You can tell that Dick, whose previous documentary Derrida showed that he had serious chops, is having fun with this one. And a good part of the fun involves providing entertaining educational highlights for the public.

November 10, 2006 | Comment (1)
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Winds up feeling shallow, padded and unrevealing.

November 10, 2006 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comments (3)
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[The film] has a refreshingly snotty sense of humor...Dick would put a banana peel out on Ventura Boulevard if he thought a[n MPAA] rater might slip on it.

August 21, 2009 Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul | Comment (1)

Even if you've never given a second thought to who bestows ratings on movies or how those ranks are given, Kirby Dick's enlightening documentary will catch you up in its infectious spin of curiosity.

April 20, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment (1)
ColeSmithey.com

...a smug little documentary...

October 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
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It appeals to the conspiracy theorist in all of us.

August 28, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com | Comment (1)

Tracking the MPAA ratings board. Adults only.

July 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comments (2)
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paroysiazei me anatreptiki diathesi, maniasmeno peisma kai dianooymenistiko sarkasmo tin tragiki geloiotita tis skiodoys epitropis, poy me adieykrinista kritiria kai kathagiasmeno etsithelismo, frontizei gia tin katharotita toy kinimatografikoy proiontos

October 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses
Movies for the Masses

What the film doesn't offer is much hope -- or much balance.

August 3, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment (1)
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Takes a comical look at the ratings board and its nefarious activities in giving a film a rating.

March 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment (1)
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Dick bares the graphic inconsistencies in the Hollywood ratings game, especially when it comes to the great divide between violence (bring it on) and sex (don't take it off).

January 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | Comment (1)

If you care about the freedom of expression, including in the film industry, this documentary feature is important as a learning tool.

January 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | Comment (1)
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Audience Reviews for This Film is Not Yet Rated

Terrific documentary on film censorship, This Film is Not Yet Rated takes a look at the MPAA the organization who give films its ratings. Director Kirby Dick interviews some prominent filmmakers who have had their films certified with unwanted ratings due to the amount of explicit content in their films. The film shares the points of view of the filmmakers and gives us insight into how unfair the rating system really is. I thoroughly enjoyed this film, and it does a great job at telling the story from the point of view of the people that make the films. For me, I think it's preposturous for someone to tell me what I can, and cannot watch. As you get older, you realize that film is an art form, and how wonderful films can be. By censoring them and telling the filmmakers they have to cut their work, the MPAA waters down, and in many ways destroy the intention and goal for the filmmaker to entertain its audience. Films should be uncompromising and many movies out there are tasteless, extreme and offensive, but the best judge of what to watch is you. This Film is Not Yet Rated is an eye opening film and it should be seen by every film lover. This is a near perfect documentary that finally tells the side of the filmmakers and how the MPAA butchers their art. Brilliant, funny and at times unfair in the sense that one organization has practically given themselves the right to judge what is best for us to watch, This Film is Not Yet Rated is a well crafted must see documentary.
April 1, 2011
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Almost right after watching A Serbian Film, I stumbled across a documentary that addressed the idea of corrupt movie censorship head-on, and the result is so much more rewarding.
Interviewing many of today's filmmakers who have had their films sanctioned by the MPAA, director Kirby Dick tries to get at the heart of what exactly is the criteria used when applying these ratings - G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17 - to films, and who are the people who make such decisions. What follows is something quite disturbing. From first hand accounts of people who have worked at the MPAA as well as filmmakers who have had to battle to get their films "properly" rated, we learn that there is no real criteria that distinguishes an R from an NC-17, and that the decision makers are not only anonymous to the public but security measures have been set up to protect these people from ever being known.
This Film is Not Yet Rated shows just how much a particular rating can affect the box office performance of your film, and beyond that, how accessible your film will be to the general public. In one scene you learn that most theatres and big retail chains will not carry an NC-17 rated film. Talk about limiting freedom of expression. Also, through comparisons between how lenient the MPAA is towards violence as opposed to sex, how big studio films will receive detailed and specific ways to get their films tailored to a specific rating while independent filmmakers are left with nothing more than a vague response, this documentary reveals an organization that doesn't know what it's doing. Instead, it is a system designed as a false safeguard to parents based on some false moral ground that Uncle Sam is watching out for you and that "somebody is thinking of the children." But it's a joke. Filmmakers can argue their ratings on what they think is suitable for a particular rating, but if there are no standards set out for these ratings, how can any of these ratings be legitimate?
December 24, 2011
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