Two different things get called a "rating": parental-guidance ratings that say who a title is appropriate for, and critic & audience scores that say how good people think it is. Dscvrr lets you filter on both.
American movie ratings are assigned by the Motion Picture Association. On Dscvrr the chips are additive — light up every rating you're happy to see. We start with G, PG and PG-13 on and R off.
Nothing that would offend parents when viewed by children.
Some material may not be suitable for children — mild language, brief scares.
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
Under 17 requires an accompanying parent or adult guardian. Strong language, violence, sexuality or drug use.
NR — the dashed chip — collects everything without a usable MPA rating: films never submitted for rating, festival and foreign releases, and classics rated under retired systems ("Approved", "Passed", "M", "X"). Most pre-1968 cinema lives here, so flip it on when you're hunting classics. The rare NC-17 title is grouped with R.
Television uses its own scale, shown at the start of a broadcast. Dscvrr starts with TV-G and TV-PG on; TV-14 and TV-MA are there when you want them. The Kids chip swaps the row for the two young-children ratings, TV-Y and TV-Y7.
Made for young children, including ages 2–6.
For kids who can tell make-believe from reality. TV-Y7-FV flags more intense fantasy violence.
Suitable for all ages; little or no violence, no strong language.
Some material parents may find unsuitable for younger children.
Material many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14.
Specifically designed for adults; may be unsuitable under 17.
TV ratings may carry content descriptors: D suggestive dialogue, L coarse language, S sexual situations, V violence, FV fantasy violence (on TV-Y7). An NR chip covers shows with no published rating.
The icons beside the slider are score sources: IMDb (0–10, from audience votes), Rotten Tomatoes (0–100%, the share of critics who reviewed it positively) and Metacritic (0–100, a weighted average of critic reviews). Light up the sources you trust; a title has to carry a score from every lit source, and the average of those scores — everything mapped to the same 0–10 scale — has to clear your minimum. Pick one source to filter on it alone.
Sources only appear for a media type when our catalog actually has meaningful coverage there, which is why TV currently offers fewer than movies.