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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
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The Man from Earth
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Set in a single room, this thoughtful, philosophical play might blow your mind a little.
Rating: 9
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2007
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Good Night, and Good Luck.
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Simplifies historical conflict (1950s McCarthyism) to illustrate TV journalism's responsibility to question authority.
Rating: 8
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2005
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Get Smart
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Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway are super-secret spies or whatever. Can their gadgets defeat KAOS?
Rating: 6
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2008
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Into the Wild
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Christopher McCandless abandons his privileged life and adventures to live alone in the Alaskan wilderness.
Rating: 9
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2007
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Funny Games
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An aggressively unpleasant film that tortures the audience for its bloodlust. Both sadistic and pretentious.
Rating: 7
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2008
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The International
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Worth watching for the Guggenheim Museum shootout, but this globetrotting thriller is fairly unremarkable.
Rating: 6
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2009
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King of California
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Mentally unstable Michael Douglas is convinced that Spanish treasure is buried in suburban California.
Rating: 7
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2007
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Watchmen
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Zack Snyder successfully films Alan Moore's graphic novel about an alternate, quantum America in 1985.
Rating: 9
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2009
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