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Welcome to Filmometer! This site features sortable film ratings and "15 Word Reviews" of movies released since 1997. You will also find weekly movie polls and a growing number of movie lists. How does the ratings system work? Learn more about Filmometer.

The movie lists section contains some of my own picks, plus lists including the AFI's top 100 American films and the Academy Awards Winners for Best Picture. The links page provides additional online resources for film enthusiasts. 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

Under the Skin Existential, visually mesmerizing film about loneliness by Jonathan Glazer, starring the otherworldly Scarlett Johansson.  Rating: 9  2014 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Beasts of the Southern Wild Her father's ill, ice caps are melting and aurochs are invading six-year-old Hushpuppy's bayou. Love.  Rating: 10  2012 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Hyde Park on Hudson On the eve of WWII, Bill Murray is FDR and Laura Linney is his mistress.  Rating: 6  2012 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: How to Die in Oregon Peter Richardson's respectful, heartbreaking documentary about physician-assisted suicide and the beauty of life.  Rating: 9  2011 English IMDb Page Genres/categories:

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic Animatrix-style companion to EA's video game. Dante enters the nine circles of hell, battles demons.  Rating: 6  2010 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Blue Valentine Deftly alternates between a dysfunctional couple's earlier in-love happiness and their later anguish. Remarkable.  Rating: 8  2010 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: The Congress Ambitious, futuristic amalgam of Hollywood actor digitization and animated illusory utopia. Trippy. Robin Wright stars.  Rating: 8  2014 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: My Life as a Zucchini Vibrant stop-motion animation about a young boy sent to a foster home. Delightful youthful resilience.  Rating: 8  2017 Foreign IMDb Page Genres/categories: