‘Chappie’, ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ and ‘The Cobbler’ in Today’s MPAA Ratings

While I’m not the big cheerleader of Neill Blomkamp so many others are, I will commend him for the fact he makes the movies he wants to make and he’s not making test audience-approved, PG-13 material and while I have zero interest in seeing Chappie, kudos once again for giving us another R-rated film where in the hands of others it would most likely be a soft lob down the middle, PG-13 waste.

Also in today’s bulletin we have Olivier Assayas‘ Clouds Of Sils Maria starring Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart. This one has received plenty of good word of mouth and seems like a must see once it arrives in April. On the flip side of that we have a rating for Thomas McCarthy‘s The Cobbler starring Adam Sandler, which walked away from the Toronto Film Festival last year as the most loathed release of the fest.

Finally, we have Sicario from Denis Villeneuve (Enemy, Prisoners) starring Emily Blunt as a young female FBI agent who joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit. Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro co-star and Lionsgate has not yet set a release date.

The complete bulletin is directly below.