Nothing prepared me for this movie's astonishing energy and R-rated violence, or its bold, exuberant humor.
That company doesn't link its family-friendly name with Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Pictures, its R-rated film labels.
"Savages" is an R-rated picture in which the female star loves two men at the same time.
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One-third of underage shoppers bought a ticket to an R-rated movie, up slightly from 28 percent in 2009.
Thirty-eight percent of shoppers purchased R-rated DVDs, compared to 54 percent in 2009.
Those are extraordinary home video numbers for an R-rated movie that's in a foreign language and features graphic violence.
See for yourself, the trailer reveals some PG sparkle from this R-rated rom-com.
And we would never take our child to an R-rated sex and slaughter-fest...unless, of course, we couldn't find a babysitter.
R-rated action films, which mean under-17s require an accompanying parent or adult guardian, have not fared so well in 2013.
Director Noah Baumbach's new film "Frances Ha" (Friday), a highbrow R-rated comedy, caused a sensation on the film-festival circuit last fall.
The comparable figure for R-rated movies was 33%, a statistically negligible difference.
On the home video front, retailers of R-rated and unrated DVDs demonstrated meaningful improvement in ratings enforcement, but there is room for more.
We enjoyed beheadings, disembowellings, sexual assaults all sorts of flickering R-rated depravity the way others might take in a Grand Canyon vista: as a family.
There is no place for children at an orgy of violence like the (merely R-rated) Pulp Fiction or a torture-themed demented fantasy like Dark Knight.
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The Jets edition of "Hard Knocks" was foul-mouthed, unapologetic and often irresistible, and the R-rated club went right back out and reached the AFC championship again.
Smoking in PG-13 films -- including background shots and other passing instances -- was just as strongly linked with real-world experimentation as the smoking in R-rated films.
Mr. McGreevy took his pitch to Netflix, with the conditions that he would write the series and be an executive producer, and that the R-rated content would remain.
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The only open question is whether the word of mouth swearing its the most gruesome and stomach-churning R-rated horror film in recent memory helps or hinders word of mouth.
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In theory, members of the National Association of Theater Owners agree not to sell tickets to R-rated films to those under 17, unless accompanied by the proverbial parent or adult guardian.
You know, the impolite, filthy, R-rated "Hard Knocks" stuff.
If I ever get a chance to write a South Park episode on big data, perhaps some of the R-rated imagery Pacelli uses to describe this problem will become more widely known.
The weekend's other new wide release, Sylvester Stallone's R-rated action vehicle Bullet to the Head, got off to an even worse start than Arnold Schrwazenegger's The Last Stand did two weeks ago.
If R-rated movies tell us that kids should probably not see that film, it takes all of two seconds to learn that an M-rating means that kids should probably not play that game.
The timing for a primed, pumped, itchy-trigger-finger shoot-em-up leaves something to be desired, no doubt, but with Nicolas Cage unaccountably AWOL this January, Arnie has the knucklehead R-rated action field pretty much to himself.
Scenes of smoking have become increasingly rare in non-R-rated movies, according to the MPAA. Of the movies portraying smoking in recent years, 72% were rated R, 21% were rated PG-13, and 6% were rated PG.
It should be noted, however, that MacFarlane's "Ted" recently broke a box office record: The flick about a teddy bear that comes to life has surpassed "The Hangover" as the highest-grossing non-sequel R-rated comedy worldwide.
This continued improvement and upward trend is at an all-time high for the video game industry and exceeds every other entertainment format, including sales of music with parental-advisory labels, R-rated movie tickets, and R-rated and unrated DVDs.
With a combo of R-rated swagger and a therapist's gift for self-esteem polishing, Ryan convinced grown men that "play like a Jet" didn't mean getting mathematically eliminated in Week 7, and transformed a forlorn franchise into a non-joke contender.
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The hype has been helped in no small part by controversy around the R-rated film's excessive violence and language, much of which is doled out by actress Chloe Grace Moretz, who was 11 when she played the role of Hit Girl.
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