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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 Monday, April 21, 2025 at 11:08 am

Incendies Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their mysterious family history. Earth-shattering Greek tragedy.  Rating: 9  2011 Foreign IMDb Page Genres/categories: The Babadook A single mother and her troubled boy find a creepy children's book. Slowly enveloping dread.  Rating: 8  2014 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Cave of Forgotten Dreams Inside France's Chauvet Cave, Werner Herzog idiosyncratically explores the history of art and human culture.  Rating: 9  2011 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: How Beer Saved the World Simplifies human history to exaggerate the importance of beer to civilization. BEER! Extreme hyperbole!  Rating: 6  2011 English IMDb Page Genres/categories:

Meet the Spartans Friedberg and Seltzer reinforce their status as truly unparalleled hacks of the spoof genre. Terrible.  Rating: CRAP  2008 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Road to Nowhere Shannyn Sossamon's emotive performance carries Hellman's thin neo-noir mystery that blurs film with real crime.  Rating: 7  2011 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Chloe Implausible psychological drama with lots of nudity by escort Amanda Seyfried and doctor Julianne Moore.  Rating: 7  2010 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Pontypool Thoughtful psychological thriller. A virus with zombie-like symptoms is somehow infecting a small Ontario town.  Rating: 7  2010 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: