Insultingly stupid, insipid, and childish.It pushes the whole "CORPORATIONS ARE EVIL!CORPORATIONS CONTROL THE MPAA" mantra, when in reality, ratings hurt them the most.Also, can they please explain to me how the hell the McCarthy hearings had ANYTHING to do with the MPAA trying to break the unions?Wild speculation doesn't count. I could go on for hours about all the factual errors.(Example: 20th Century Fox is not controlled by Newscorp; just watch "Avatar", or Cameron calling O'Reilly an idiot)

a good enough doc about how movies get thier ratings..I felt some of it tries to hard to pound the point into us and at others it skips topics...but all in all its a entertaining little watch

Could've used less shoehorned detective story and more sustained critique of how the distribution system props the whole regime up, but still super important.

Reviewing documentaries as films is hard, because though you may agree with the opinion espoused (and I do, in this case), the delivery is what makes the work entertaining. This film's thesis is well established through interviews with filmmakers and footage from their films, but many of the segments tend to be repetitive. The stuff with the private investigator adds some variety, but is objectively worthless; I was more interested in *how* the films are rated rather than who does the rating.

The structure is kinda weak, and the parts with the PI felt like padding, but there's still some interesting and important tidbits in here.

Interesting but seems to focus more on the little things than the big picture.

"Dissects the current film ratings system with amusing impertinence." - Nick Schager

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.

Rather uninformative, unfortunately.

A bland documentary that recaps what we all know. Still it's good to know.

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.

I would've preferred more stories from different directors pertaining to their experiences with the MPAA. I didn't think the PI stuff was too bad, but it definitely dragged the movie down a notch. Overall it does a great job of exposing how idiotic the MPAA is, and there's something to be said for that.

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.

the PI stuff seemed silly, otherwise very interesting.

I get what they were trying to do, and it did provide some interesting info on how the rating system works (or maybe doesn't work). Still the documentary itself I just didn't find that interesting. The spying and stuff was a little cool at first, but then I found it to go a bit over the top. The same can be said about the phone calls at the end.

A censorship board is what the MPAA is and it's disgusting and the documentary does a good job at that. The private eye stuff I could live without. The interviews with the directors are the high point, and where you see how petty some of the complains of the board are.

Kirby Dick's outrageous doc doesn't quite embrace the big picture, but it succesfully exposes how the MPAA rating system is arbitrary, moralistic and is used as a political tool for subtle artistic censorship.