Had to make a revision tonight after finally seeing Green Book:


1. Mission Impossible: Fallout

2. A Simple Favor

3. A Star is Born

4. A Quiet Place

5. Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse

6. Avengers: Infinity War

7. They Shall Not Grow Old (WWI documentary from Peter Jackson)

8. Green Book

9. Bumblebee

10. Won’t you be my Neighbor?


Green Book knocks out Whitney from my Top 10. Fantastic movie. Everyone should see it.

I post on Facebook at the end of each year the two things I track: movies and biking. I just posted for 2018.

Here's my 2018 by the numbers:

Movies: 230 in the theater. 153 new, 77 old. 67 on 35mm, 5 on 70mm. 28 different theaters. The most I saw in a single day was 6.

These were the best:

1. Happy As Lazzaro
2. The Other Side of the Wind
3. Roma
4. First Reformed
5. Burning
6. The Sisters Brothers
7. Stan & Ollie
8. BlackKklansman
9. The House That Jack Built
10. Colette

I also really liked: Alpha, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Border, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Capernaum, Clara's Ghost, Cold War, Eighth Grade, The Favourite, Game Night, If Beale Street Could Talk, Juliet, Naked, The Mule, Never Goin' Back, The Old Man and the Gun, A Quiet Place, Revenge, Shoplifters, A Star Is Born

I hated these most:

1. A Wrinkle in Time
2. Let the Corpses Tan
3. Head Full of Honey
4. The 15:17 to Paris
5. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
6. Con Man and Gotti (tie)
7. Rampage
8. Pacific Rim Uprising
9. Girl in the Spider's Web, The
10. Dr. Seuss' the Grinch
11. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
12. Terminal
13. Tomb Raider
14. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
15. Peter Rabbit

I also strongly disliked 6 Balloons, 12 Strong, The Clapper, The Cloverfield Paradox, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, Generation Wealth, Gringo, The Happytime Murders, Hunter Killer, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Mary Poppins Returns, Mile 22, Mortal Engines, Night School, Overboard, Robin Hood, Venom, Vox Lux and Welcome to Marwen

Biking: 3,407 miles.

Happy New Year!

1. The Rider
2. Mission: Impossible - Fallout
3. Leave No Trace
4. The Death of Stalin
5. The Old Man and the Gun
6. Lean on Pete
7. The Guilty
8. The Kindergarten Teacher
9. Nancy
10. Night Comes On

Just missed the cut:
11. Roma
12. We the Animals
13. Mandy
14. Searching
15. Sorry to Bother You

A few movies off the top of my head that I haven't seen that look interesting that could've made the list:
* Shoplifters
* Ben is Back
* A Private War

Incomplete as I haven't seen many movies in the theaters including some limited releases:

1. The Death of Superman (V) ****½, A

2. The Last Movie Star ****¼, A-
3. Final Score (V) ****¼, A-

4. Avengers: Infinity War ****, A-
5. Upgrade ****, A-

6. Annihilation ****, B+
7. Thoroughbreds ****, B+
8. Ready Player One ****, B+
9. Tully ****, B+
10. Black Panther ****, B+

Here's my end of year update, but I still haven't seen quite a bit:

1. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2. Hereditary
3. Mission Impossible: Fallout
4. BlacKkKlansman
5. A Quiet Place
6. Searching
7. Avengers: Infinity War
8. Aquaman
9. A Star Is Born
10. Spider-Man: Into The Spider Verse
11. Mary Poppins Returns
12. Overlord
13. Ready Player One
14. Black Panther
15. Solo
16. Cam
17. Ralph Breaks The Internet
18. Halloween (2018)
19. Ant-Man and The Wasp
20. Bad Times at the El Royale
21. Deadpool 2
22. Incredibles 2
23. Bohemian Rhapsody
24. Bird Box
25. Isle of Dogs
26. Teen Titans Go To The Movies
27. The Death of Superman
28. Crazy Rich Asians
29. The Week Of

I've actually gotten out more this year than the past few and I've enjoyed everything so here goes:

1. Mission Impossible: Fallout
2. Deadpool 2
3. Aquaman
4. Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse
5. A Quiet Place
6. A Star is Born
7. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
8. Ready Player One
9. Wreck-it-Ralph 2
10. Ant-Man & the Wasp

Honorable Mentions: Avengers: Infinity War & Alpha

Movies I haven't seen yet that could shake up this list:
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Bohemian Rhapsody
Incredibles 2
Solo
Black Panther

1 - Shoplifters
2 - Roma
3 - Free Solo
4 - Tully
5 - Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse
6 - Paddington 2
7 - Eighth Grade
8 - Isle of Dogs
9 - We the Animals
10 - Blindspotting

The remaining (top 25) favorite movies of the year for me:

11. Happy as Lazzo
12. If Beale Street could Talk
13. Three Identical Strangers
14. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
15. A Star is Born
16. The Other Side of the Wind
17. RBG
18. Suspiria
19. BlackKKlansman
20. First Reformed
21. Green Book
22. Game Night
23. Bohemian Rhapsody
24. Alpha
25. Mandy

Five Disappointments:

Mary Poppins Returns
Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom
Halloween
Black Panther
Venom

Five Guilty Pleasures:

The Meg
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again
The Nun
Teen Titans Go the Movies!
The Little Stranger


Five Worst of the year (that I had the misfortune of enduring)

The Predator
Life Itself
15:17 to Paris
The HappyTime Murders
Kin

Some more adds,still have many more movies from 2018 still to watch .I like to list my top 10 and also going up to 20 or 25 films.
In no particular order,so much still to watch from 18.

-Avengers: Infinity War(Top 10)
-Game Night (Top 25)
-You Were Never Really Here
-Upgrade
-Ready Player One

New adds
-Unsane
-Thoroughbreds
-Aquaman
-A star is Born
Leave No Trace
Won't you be my neighbor?
12 Strong
Can You Ever Forgive Me?

add another
First Reformed

1. First Reformed
2. Cold War
3. Support the Girls
4. In the Realm of Perfection
5. You Were Never Really Here
6. Shoplifters
7. Sorry To Bother You
8. Let the Sunshine In
9. The Favourite
10. BlacKkKlansman

Upgrade
Annihilation
Hereditary
Tully
Never Look Away
Green Book
Avengers: Infinity War
The Favourite
First Reformed
The Sisters Brothers
Mandy
Free Solo

Still need to see Roma and a couple others. Saw 6 on this list in the past week or so.

Edit: Just saw Never Look Away. Including in top five.

Another Edit: Watched Tully, loved it. Glad to see a couple people have it on their lists, that should've gotten more love.

have to now add Green Book. just phenomenal.

In no order...

Isle of Dogs
Tully
Eighth Grade
Mission Impossible: Fall Out
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Roma
Searching
Green Book
BlacKkKlansman
First Man

Still have more to watch

So far INPO

You Were Never Really Here
First Reformed
BlacKkKlansman
Mandy
Annihilation
Widows
Unsane
Roma
Hold the Dark
Suspiria

Avengers; infinity War, BlacKkKlansman and Mission impossible: Fallout seem to be on everyone's list.
Really need to checkout BlacKkKlansman

#1 for sure...

25.Crime & Punishment





25.We The Animals




23. You Were Never Really Here





22. Hereditary





21. Shoplifters





20.Love, Cecil






19. Boy Erased






18. Papillon





17. Mandy




16. My Generation





15. Minding the Gap






14. Climax




13. Custody





12. Apostasy






11. Eighth Grade





10. Border





9. Deadpool 2





8. Leave No Trace





7. At Eternity's Gate






6. Suspiria






5. The House That Jack Built





4. Roma




3. Capernaum




2. Everybody Knows






1. Never Look Away

Since this has been bumped, and since I saw some 2018 movies late in the game, I'd like to add a few to my list:

Aquaman
Upgrade
Hereditary
A Quiet Place
Bumblebee
The Endless
Venom

Have not seen Mandy yet, and just bought The Haunting of Hill House, haven't watched it yet.

More than 10, but Oh well, you'll have that...

1. If Beale Street Could Talk
2. Black Panther
3. BlacKkKlansman
4. Christopher Robin
5. Upgrade
5. You Were Never Really Here (what Phoenix should have won the Oscar for, not the farce of mental illness that is Joker)
7. Annihilation
8. Halloween
9. Creed II
10. Incredibles 2

Honorable mention for "stupid fun": Infinity War or Rampage