Fast forward to today’s standards, and films are still heavily censored, the ratings system is completely ... and yet a film cannot play its trailer in a theater unless it has been rated by the MPAA.

In 1990, Philip Kaufman released Henry & June, a film that forced the MPAA to create the NC-17 rating. The visually stunning ...

Inspired by Frankenstein, the horror-comedy Frankenhooker was given a very odd and unprecedented rating on release.

In theory, the ESRB ratings system should be a parallel to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) film ratings system. Both are established on a series of ratings that narrow the ...

Our analyses suggest that age-based and content-based rating information ... to suggest that the MPAA remains in the best position to perform these types of analyses since movie studios pay ...