Review of This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006) by Jessica V — 19 Apr 2009

An interesting premise delivered in a way I found offensive and sensationalist. The constant stream of insinuations that somehow European film is the be-all and end-all of the art, the suggestion that the tragedy at Columbine was due to the MPAA's poor rating methods, that the Church is and always has been involved in censorship, that I'm somehow too conservative and old fashioned in thinking my child shouldn't be seeing a masturbation scene at 14.

.. I felt very affronted and antagonized. Plus the way the filmmakers went about discovering the "secret identities" of all the MPAA raters seemed rather childish, filming furtively over people's shoulders and such.

All that said, I do agree - there needs to be a lot more transparency in the MPAA. But after feeling so indignant, I have a hard time swallowing anything else.