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Movie Review for Quarantine (2008)
movieEVERYday.com — ... more insurmountable. The time has come for you to do your duty, if your duty is to rate movies to supply parents and guardians with ample warning as to the contents of a movie, and start passing out more NC-17 to films with a gruesome and violent nature as you do for ones that depict humans in overtly sexual contexts. It's truly reprehensible that anyone would think this movie is not an NC-17, and it's time for parents and guardians to demand better from the MPAA. Here's what their website says constitutes an NC-17 rating: ...

Slumdog Millionaire gets R rating
Filmstalker — ... , which received a rating in the US of PG-13. Let's have a look at those ratings and hear from someone who has actually seen the film. First up, The Dark Knight received a PG-13, on the MPAA site that is described as: “Any drug use will initially require at least a PG-13 rating. More than brief nudity will require at least a PG-13 rating, but such nudity in a PG-13 rated motion picture generally will not be sexually oriented. There may be depictions of violence in a PG-13 movie, but generally not both realistic and extreme or persistent violence. A motion picture’s single use ...

What Kind of Rating For Powerful - But Brutal - Dolphin Documentary?
Carpetbagger — ... report that Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions will distribute “The Cove,” a brutally graphic documentary about dolphin slaughter, left us wondering how the folks at the Classification and Rating Administration, which rates films, will handle this one. The board’s official Web site hasn’t posted a rating yet. And its posted standards don’t give much guidance about scenes depicting violence against animals. But they do say this: “There may be depictions of violence in a PG-13 movie, but generally not both realistic and extreme or persistent violence.” Based on a viewing at ...

Year One's kindergarten humour is unlikely to amuse the adults
Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk — Harold Ramis's plan to sacrifice adult laughs for youthful bums on seats hasn't really worked out If you go and see Year One, you're not very likely to be tickled pink, but you may be a bit puzzled. The producer, Judd Apatow, is an Emmy award-winner. The acting talent is tried and tested. The ...

The curse of Harry Potter is infantilising the world
Film | guardian.co.uk — ... sacred text. Without its capacity to bewitch the supposedly mature, the Potter franchise would never have established its unrivalled grip on the box office. The indications are that the average age of the audience has actually been rising as film follows film. Harry's greying aficionados are boastful rather than embarrassed about their affliction. Small wonder that Warner Bros was prepared to let Half-Blood Prince's two immediate predecessors pick up a PG-13. They knew that with so many prime-of-life patrons they could afford to risk losing a few ...

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Ciné Critique Américain — ...      Fair warning.  Just because this is an animated film and the main characters are small, doll like things, this movie is rated PG-13 for a reason.  I occurs shortly after the fall of mankind.  There is ruin everywhere, some dead bodies, (nothing really graphic) and some skeletal remains.  Don't bring younger or easily frightened children.  ...

The Stepfather (Review)
Ciné Critique Américain —       I saw "The Stepfather" this weekend, after a failed attempt to see it opening weekend, and I was surprised.  Most PG-13 rated horror movies are complete trash.  They exist only to attract kids with disposable income to theaters during the first two weeks of release; ...