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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, September 12, 2026 at 8:54 pm

Waiting for 'Superman' Devastating portrait of the failing U.S. public school system and its consequences for the future.  Rating: 8  2010 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: A Dangerous Method How the relationships between Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein gave birth to psychoanalysis.  Rating: 8  2011 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Pearl Jam: Let's Play Two Eddie Vedder's Chicago Cubs fandom during their 2016 World Series run, plus Wrigley Field concerts.  Rating: 7  2017 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: Anomalisa A joyless motivational speaker just going through the motions has an extraordinary experience. Stop-motion humanity.  Rating: 9  2016 English IMDb Page Genres/categories:

Take Shelter Tense, haunting film about a father being driven mad by apocalyptic visions. Paranoid or prophetic?  Rating: 9  2011 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: A Cat in Paris Charming, attractive animated feature centered on cat burgling. Made with traditional ink and paint cartooning.  Rating: 7  2012 Foreign IMDb Page Genres/categories: Captain Fantastic A survivalist raising his children in an isolated Washington forest must return to civilization. Parenting!  Rating: 9  2016 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: The Pixar Story Documentary about the history of animation, and the origin and successes of Pixar Animation Studios.  Rating: 9  2008 English IMDb Page Genres/categories: