When the PG-13 rating was instituted in 1984, it was welcomed as spackle to fill the gap between the heavy adult fare of R and the relative innocence of PG. The idea — sparked, in part ...

Movies with PG-13 ratings like “The Hunger Games Mockingjay” and “Guardians of the Galaxy were by far the biggest moneymakers for Hollywood last year, but films with PG ratings such as ...

Horror movies are almost always given the PG-13 or R-rating, family films are almost always either G or PG, and everything else rests across the spectrum based on whatever content they might ...

In 1984, the MPAA introduced a new rating that was supposed to warn parents about violence. Our film critic explains how that backfired. The PG-13 turns 40 this year. But it’s no cause for ...

It Ends With Us is rated PG-13 for domestic violence, sexual content, and language. The intense themes in the film may be disturbing even for adult viewers. The PG-13 rating does not mean the ...

On average, PG-13 movies make more than three times what R-rated films do at the box office in the U.S. So why is Hollywood releasing far more R-rated movies than any other kind? This year ...

Horror fans hoping the PG-13-rated “Five Nights at Freddy’s” might go the “M3GAN” route and release an R-rated cut on streaming at a later date are not in luck. Director Emma Tammi has ...

We've known for a while that Superman will be rated PG-13, of course, but it's now 100% official. As for why it's earned that ...

The superhero movie launching the new DC Universe franchise is not going too dark and gritty, but neither is it keeping ...

But how “real” is this plastic, fantastic adaptation? And why did the Motion Picture Association grant it a PG-13 rating, citing "suggestive references and brief language”? Before you decide ...

Movies rated R returned about $42 million at the box office on average last year, while the average haul of PG ($82 million) and PG-13 movies ($79 million) was roughly double that.