AWFJ Women On Film – MPAA Ratings on Violence/Sex – Carrie Rickey comments

December 8, 2010 Carrie Rickey (Archived Contributor) 0 Comments awfj women on film, carrie rickey, mpaa ratings, sex rating, violence rating

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Carrie Rickey asks why, at the movies, is a scene of a woman’s arm cut off rated R, but one of her being sexually pleasured rated NC-17? Read more>>, and leave comments below!

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Carrie Rickey (Archived Contributor)

Carrie Rickey has been The Philadelphia Inquirer's film critic for 21 years and writes the newspaper's Flickgrrl blog. She has reviewed films as diverse as "Water" and "The Waterboy," profiled celebrities from Lillian Gish to Will Smith, and reported on technological beakthroughs from the video revolution to the rise of movies on demand. Her reviews are syndicated nationwide and she is a regular contributor to Entertainment Weekly, MSNBC and NPR. Rickey's essays appear in numerous anthologies, including "The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll," "The American Century," and the Library of America's "American Movie Critics."