The Hollywood Reporter

Raunchy Comedies Try for a Comeback in Theaters

Jennifer Lawrence’s ‘No Hard Feelings’ leads a raft of R-rated theatrical bets as studios look for fare that will stand out to moviegoers: “A difficult thing to do.” By Ryan Gajewski Senior ...
Forbes

Explaining The Deeply Unlucky Stellar Blade ‘Hard R’ Situation

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. Stellar Blade’s review embargo was up yesterday, and of ...
Deadline.com

‘No Hard Feelings’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence Leans Into Hard-R Comedy

What starts out looking like it wants to be a gross-out comedy in the Porky’s vein eventually, and more gratifyingly, heads closer to The Graduate territory in No Hard Feelings. It seems like quite a ...
USA Today

Jennifer Lawrence says raunchy ‘No Hard Feelings’ nude scene was ‘most exercise I’ve had’

Jennifer Lawrence will do anything for a laugh. In her raunchy R-rated comedy “No Hard Feelings” (streaming now on Netflix), the Oscar winner kicks through a door, gets punched in the throat and ...
Vulture

The Summer of the R-rated Comedy Is Off to a Rocky Start at the Box Office

Coming from the first of four R-rated studio comedies in theaters this summer, No Hard Feelings’s tepid debut could have a chilling effect. Photo: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures In the R-rated ...
Yahoo

Deadpool and Wolverine’s Hard R-Rating Let Ryan Reynolds “Do Anything and Everything”

Disney is committed to making Deadpool and Wolverine an R-rated adult spectacle, and that’s made Ryan Reynolds “very surprised.” “I hope it doesn’t sound condescending,” Reynolds tells Fandango in the ...
New York Post

Jennifer Lawrence ‘born to do hard R comedies’: ‘Sweet spot’

She’s stumbled into a new career path. Dramatic actress Jennifer Lawrence was “born to do hard R comedies,” Cameron Diaz assures her in the latest issue of Interview Magazine. “It might be your sweet ...
The Movie Blog

Green Lantern Nearly Joined Michael Bay’s R Rated Lobo Film

Fans of DC comics were shocked when writer Jason Fuchs revealed that Green Lantern was set to appear in a cancelled Lobo ...
collider

Matthew Vaughn's Musical Movie Will Have a "Hard R" Rating and Puppets

Julia is a Senior News and Resource writer for Collider who graduated from Hofstra University in 2018 with a BA in Film Studies and Production. Since joining the Collider team in 2022, Julia enjoys ...
AOL

'Gay Tuesday.' 'Hard-R Friday.' A high school hockey team is overrun by alleged bigotry — and adults in power don't seem to care

Danvers, Massachusetts, has a problem. A problem with alleged racism. A problem with alleged anti-semitism. A problem with alleged anti-gay sentiment. But as best we can tell, the adults who are ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Joker’ Box Office Bonanza: How the Pic Overcame a “Hard” R-Rating and Security Worries

The nihilistic R-rated supervillain pic starring Joaquin Phoenix launched to an October-best $247 million despite widespread security concerns. By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer Hollywood studio ...