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...PG, PG-13, R, X, NC-17. For a bunch of numbers and letters, the American movie rating system sure has a way of inviting controversy. On Nov. 1, it turns 40 years old. Dan Glickman, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, and Joan Graves, Chairman of the Classification and Ratings Administration, spoke to TIME about ratings history, drugs in movies, and the unfairly maligned...
Glickman: You have some movies today that get a 'PG-13' or 'R' ratings that 40 years ago probably wouldn't have even been made. Movies like Wedding Crashers or Knocked Up, or these other hard 'R' comedies that are out there. They reflect how society has changed, what standards it accepts...
...action movie based on a violent video game... and it's rated PG-13? Honestly, what's the point? I know PG-13 is the new R; the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is a lot more flexible-lenient-craven than it used to be. When Judd Apatow comedies and the grotty-Guignol The Dark Knight can secure the unrestricted rating, it's clear that the old sheriff has been replaced by a parole board. But if an R means anything, it's that moviegoers get to see the bone-cratering damage a fist...
Flash of Genius Directed by Marc Abraham; rated PG-13; out now Greg Kinnear plays the kind of mildly obsessive guy who might invent the intermittent windshield wiper. And then sue, claiming the Ford Motor Co. stole it from him. And insist on representing himself in court. This is an intelligent, if long, fact-based tale of the pitfalls and pinnacles that meet a genuinely independent thinker...
...Visitor Written and directed by Thomas McCarthy; rated PG-13; out Oct. 7 Yes, it's the story of a carapace of a widower whose life is changed by the illegal immigrants he finds living in his apartment. But as massively sappy as that sounds, the film so delicately and thoughtfully picks its tragedies out of the blur of everyday life that it has a quiet power. Perfect to watch with smart friends after dinner...