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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 Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 10:36 pm

Colony Slow and unfocused documentary about beekeeping, and the struggle to cope with colony collapse disorder.  Rating: 6  2010 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Love & Teleportation A disgraced quantum mechanics professor invents a teleportation machine in his garage. Clever, charming ending.  Rating: 7  2013 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Desire Two estranged sisters reunite at a wedding. Lust destroys their lives again. Boring yet poetic.  Rating: CRAP  2017 Foreign IMDb Page Genres/categories: The Shape of Water Love story between a mute janitor and an amphibious creature at a 1962 top-secret laboratory.  Rating: 9  2017 English IMDb Page Genres/categories:

Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Q... The grand celestial ambitions of Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang, famous for his pyrotechnic displays.  Rating: 7  2016 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Computer Chess Bizarre story about artificial intelligence via 1980s chess programmers. It's like 'Pi' meets 'Napoleon Dynamite'.  Rating: 8  2013 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: The Wall A woman becomes trapped in her mountain cabin by an invisible wall. Human survival metaphor.  Rating: 7  2013 Foreign IMDb Page Genres/categories: