‘The Suicide Squad’ Is Officially Rated R
For “for strong violence and gore and brief graphic nudity”?!?
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Reveals How ‘Hamilton’ Got a PG-13 Rating
The original show had enough profanity to qualify as an R. So how did they get the rating down?
Watch the Most Traumatic Moments in PG-Rated Movies
July 1 marks an important anniversary in the history of movies: The day the Motion Picture Association of America introduced the PG-13 rating. Prior to the PG-13, there was no rating for films that fell in the gray area between PG (movies where parental guidance was merely suggested) and R (movies t…
MPAA Keeps ‘Rogue One’ Teen-Friendly With a PG-13 Rating
Don’t worry #teens, you’ll all be able to see Rogue One: A Star Wars Story when it hits theaters next month, as the MPAA has officially decided all those explosions and laser gun battles aren’t too scary for the youths. Rogue One got its PG-13 rating today, for “extended …
Court Dismisses Case Requiring R-Rated Smoking in Movies
As times change, standards change, and we occasionally find ourselves bumping up against old traditions that need to retire. Even some of our most beloved childhood movies feature behavior and activities — smoking, strong language, casual misogyny — that wen…
Mike Birbiglia Rightfully Calls Out MPAA For Unfair Ratings
When you go to the theater this weekend, you’ll have a few movies to choose from, including Suicide Squad and Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice. If you didn’t know the rating for either of these films, and we were to tell you that only one of them is rated R, which one w…
Survey Reveals Parents Still Freaked Out by Sex in Movies, Relatively Cool With Murder
But a new survey conducted by the Classification and Rating Administration confirms that while parents chew their fingernails over the scandalizing unnaturalness of the human body and the sexual act — a thing the vast majority of people do at least once during their lifetime — they…
The Most Hilariously Weird MPAA Rating Descriptions
We just found out that ‘50 Shades of Grey’ has officially been given an R-rating from the MPAA for “strong sexual content including dialogue, some unusual behavior and graphic nudity, and for language.” Naturally, this leads to recalling some of the stranger and more amus…
AMC Will Allow Minors to See ‘Bully’ With Parental Permission
It's been a long battle for The Weinstein Co. and their new documentary, 'Bully,' a film that explores the effects of teen bullying. The MPAA slapped the film with an R rating, and the Weinsteins responded by choosing to release the film as unrated. But now kids will be able to see th…