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Below you will find a random sampling of films reviewed by Filmometer. Thanks for visiting!
Featured films for
Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 8:33 pm
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Under the Skin
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Existential, visually mesmerizing film about loneliness by Jonathan Glazer, starring the otherworldly Scarlett Johansson.
Rating: 9
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2014
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
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Her father's ill, ice caps are melting and aurochs are invading six-year-old Hushpuppy's bayou. Love.
Rating: 10
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2012
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Hyde Park on Hudson
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On the eve of WWII, Bill Murray is FDR and Laura Linney is his mistress.
Rating: 6
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2012
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How to Die in Oregon
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Peter Richardson's respectful, heartbreaking documentary about physician-assisted suicide and the beauty of life.
Rating: 9
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2011
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Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
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Animatrix-style companion to EA's video game. Dante enters the nine circles of hell, battles demons.
Rating: 6
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2010
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Blue Valentine
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Deftly alternates between a dysfunctional couple's earlier in-love happiness and their later anguish. Remarkable.
Rating: 8
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2010
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The Congress
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Ambitious, futuristic amalgam of Hollywood actor digitization and animated illusory utopia. Trippy. Robin Wright stars.
Rating: 8
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2014
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My Life as a Zucchini
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Vibrant stop-motion animation about a young boy sent to a foster home. Delightful youthful resilience.
Rating: 8
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2017
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