This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)

Documentary

1 hr. 37 min.

Documentary investigates the people and procedures involved in the Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) film rating system.

Rated NC-17 for some graphic sexual content

Directed by: Kirby Dick

Starring: John Waters, Kevin Smith, Matt Stone, Kimberly Peirce, Atom Egoyan

Theatrical Release Date: 9/01/2006

Release Type: NY/LA

U.S. Box Office: $302,179

Video/DVD Release Date: 1/23/2007

Distributor: IFC Films

Country: USA

Language: English

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CRITIC	RATING	QUOTE
Chicago Sun-Times Jim Emerson	7	...[it] may not present the most effective or airtight case against the MPAA, what it does dig up is damning enough.
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips	6	It's fun for a while. Then you realize all this Michael Moore-ish folderol is weakening the movie's strongest arguments.
E! Dezhda Mountz	10	...a quirky, engaging, and unashamed expose.
filmcritic.com Chris Barsanti	5
New York Post Lou Lumenick	7	While This Film Is Not Yet Rated does not suggest an alternative to the ratings board, it does expose this Tinseltown sham to some well-deserved public ridicule.
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh	7	...hugely entertaining.
Reel James Emanuel Shapiro	7	Dick's film is funny and clever, and it presents its arguments well, but there's a certain futility to it.
Slant Magazine Nick Schager	7	...a Molotov cocktail leveled against the Jack Valenti-led Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and their protocol of secretive, hypocritical, arbitrary, and moralizing censorship of "mature" material.
Rolling Stone Peter Travers	8	Kirby Dick's indispensable guerrilla attack on the film-ratings system gives Hollywood a swift, smart and hilarious kick in its institutional, hypocritical ass.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman	8	...has a bright, dishy spirit, an eagerness to provoke of the very sort that the MPAA has always tried to put in its place.
New York Times A. O. Scott	9	...a feisty, intellectually engaging documentary...
Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano	7	...the film makes a strong -- if occasionally bratty -- case for change.
People Jason Lynch	7	...riveting...
LA Weekly Ella Taylor	8	...merry and bright and loads of fun.
Village Voice J. Hoberman	7	...a snappy exposé...
Onion AV Club Scott Tobias	8	...thoroughly eviscerates the MPAA and makes a solid case that the culture has paid the price for its censorious practices. His attacks are the equivalent of shooting ducks in a barrel, but these ducks had it coming.
Premiere Jared Shimizu	6	...the high drama of unmasking the ratings board members doesn't quite pay off...
Christian Science Monitor M.K. Terrell	7	Anyone who thinks movie ratings are arbitrary won't be surprised at this attempt to document their inconsistencies.

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING	7.3
AVERAGE USER RATING (4 ratings)	7.0

USER REVIEWS:

Oracle 8

A Solid Documentary......

Grade: B+

Kirby Dicks new, solid documentary owns. Out of all the documentary topics, who would have ever thought that the MPAA would be indespensably attacked by a ruthless director and a private investigator.

Not only is it loads of fun, but it is also a smart, and perceptive documentary. Kirby Dick lays out examples for us through movies that WERE (key Word) NC-17. Movies such as "Boys Dont Cry"& "American Psycho" have been victims of the MPAA. The MPAA response to "American Psycho was the following: "WE just didnt like the tone of your movie"....

But we realize that more movies that have strong sexuality have been rated NC-17 that violent ones. In Fact, I can only think of 1 movie that has been rated NC-17 for violence: "Bad Liutenent".

Near the end of the film, Kirby Dick savvily submits in his own film to the MPAA, just to see the response. Ofcourse, to no surprise, the film gets an NC-17 gor Graphic content. The MPAA had no response to the films main point.

It definetly is a Must SEE.

-Oracle

Gatita 9

Something that we should all see, that is vrey very important. Excellent