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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 Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 1:07 pm

The Man from Earth Set in a single room, this thoughtful, philosophical play might blow your mind a little.  Rating: 9  2007 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Good Night, and Good Luck. Simplifies historical conflict (1950s McCarthyism) to illustrate TV journalism's responsibility to question authority.  Rating: 8  2005 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Get Smart Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway are super-secret spies or whatever. Can their gadgets defeat KAOS?  Rating: 6  2008 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Into the Wild Christopher McCandless abandons his privileged life and adventures to live alone in the Alaskan wilderness.  Rating: 9  2007 English IMDb Page Genres/categories:

Funny Games An aggressively unpleasant film that tortures the audience for its bloodlust. Both sadistic and pretentious.  Rating: 7  2008 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: The International Worth watching for the Guggenheim Museum shootout, but this globetrotting thriller is fairly unremarkable.  Rating: 6  2009 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: None King of California Mentally unstable Michael Douglas is convinced that Spanish treasure is buried in suburban California.  Rating: 7  2007 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Watchmen Zack Snyder successfully films Alan Moore's graphic novel about an alternate, quantum America in 1985.  Rating: 9  2009 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: