Interesting topic and it remains entertaining almost entirely throughout, but it falters a bit as it strays away from any important point or meaning. I hate the MPAA as much as anyone, but maybe their screening board is kept secret so they don't have a bunch of douchebags heckling them?

Really disappointing. Lacks focus, and is overall fairly annoying. Interviews are sometimes really good, though, and I can get behind it's ultimate goal (getting a better system in place).

Required viewing. That doesn't make a great movie though.

The MPAA deserves to be eviscerated, but this movie is filled with sub-par filmmaking, tacked on drama and an unbelievable air of smugness that suffocates every good point in the film.

I learned a hell of a lot from this movie. Several years later I'm still thinking about it, which is a sign of how effective and memorable it was. Recommended for people who care about films more than the average bear.

Pretty fun and interesting to watch, but focuses too much on the stupid detective shit.

It's a bit fluffy and it misses the mark in some places. I would have liked to see a lot more about the specific films and directors, but instead I got a useless subplot about a private investigator or whatever

Very important expose of the ratings system. Almost silly revelations about how the MPAA operates. Not quite silly since it's all true. More sad.

Ranges from boring to annoyingly stylized, with blips of genuinely fascinating material. PIs are human garbage, and yet those segments are just so painfully uninteresting that you don't even get the opportunity to hate them. The underlying subject matter is interesting, and some otherwise stupid-seeming Hollywood types have some salient points to make, but it's largely nothing you don't already know.

Very interesting and well edited/animated. I wish the segments about specific movies and the interviews with the filmmakers were a larger portion of the film, as opposed to the somewhat contrived "outing" of all the ratings board members.

It was ok, I might have been more interested if I were an American. They seemed to think anything goes in Europe, but I dunno, things are probably a bit better over here. It won't blow your mind or surprise you.

A fairly shocking look into the way American films are rated, but the sub-plot is weak shit.

Good documentary.

Examines American movie ratings superbly and flawlessly, revealing and exposing the secrets of the censorship board itself: the MPAA. Also has nice interviews. However, the entire subplot throws the whole movie off and it then becomes a blurry smudge of downright sappiness and nonsensical unimportance. Worth a view, but don't get sucked into it.

Any American who's watched their fair share of films can tell you that the MPAA has no goddamn idea what it's doing, and any American who's been to a theater knows that an R rating doesn't keep kids out. While this documentary goes to great lengths to show just how corrupt the MPAA really is, mostly it feels like preaching to the choir. This film isn't going to change any minds, nor is it going to inform you of anything important that you don't already know. But it's a fun ride while it lasts.

Would have been a lot better without the private investigator stuff

Exposing the moral enduced can of worms that is the american film industry.

I started watching this all ready to be on Kirby Dick's side, and he blew it. Far too much time was spent on violating the privacy of the ratings board, and not enough emphasizing the inherent problems of the MPAA ratings system. I ended up turning the film off 75% of the way through because I was so tired of Mr. Dick being an immature muckraker instead of representing the filmmakers who were forced to compromise their visions.

Very interesting, but the whole private investigator thing was really unnecessary, and I felt it didn't need to be so humourously stylised. Still worth a watch.

good doc

Revealing documentary about how filmmakers can't always make the films they want to. Is it widely noticed? Not really, and that's sad considering some of the things aspiring filmmakers should see here.