the art of movie warnings

I'm not sure when this started, but it's been a while now that I've been enjoying the italicized warnings at the end of certain New York Times movie reviews. I think that Manohla Dargis started the trend, but it looks like it's spreading. It seems almost like an inside joke among the arts writers, a brief look into their personalities to show that despite their erudite analyses in a respected, lofty publication, they still have a sense of humor. As intended, they also serve the purpose of informing possible viewers (and parents) of material that may be found offensive, too mature or too graphic.

Here's an example from today's Iron Man review, written by A.O. Scott: "It has a lot of action violence, non of it especially graphic or gruesome. Also, Iron Man has sex, and not with the suit on. But not completely naked either."

Here's a poetic, haiku-like example from Redbelt by Manohla Dargis: "Blood and raw words." For In Bruges she writes: "Dirty words, bloody wounds." It's like Jim Carroll writing movie reviews. The Other Bolelyn Girl has a good one too: "Roving hands, rolling heads." Too perfect.

Dargis can also be flip while providing cultural commentary, such as the warning for Vacancy: "The usual: knife and gun violence, brief female nudity, profanity." Some are also funny for their specificity, like this one for The Number 23: "It has adult language, scenes of animal endangerment, and one realistic-looking slit and spurting human throat."

They are like little gems sprinkled throughout, which makes finding them all the more fun (because some reviews have no warning at the end, and others are boring like "strong language and violence", for example).

p.s. Can anyone remember the name of a more recent movie that was described as "Fight Club for teens?" I remember that one having a good one.