They Came From 2018! My Movie Watching Guide

When I moved to Seattle in 2008, I began keeping track of all the movies I watched that came out that year. I track whether I watched them in the theater (and how many times) or on the small screen (in italics). I also indicate which ones I’ve purchased [Blu-ray].

Below are the movies that debuted in 2018 and at the bottom of this post, you can find links to my rankings from 2008-2017. This year ties with 2013 for most movies seen at the theater.

Grand Total:  76    In Theater:  58  On Video/Streaming: 18   In 2019-2021: 29

The Beyond Awesome/Fun (A+ for Everything):

• Black Panther (2x) [Blu-ray]
• Ready Player One (3x) [Blu-ray]
• Tomb Raider [Blu-ray]
• Avengers: Infinity War (2x) [Blu-ray]
• Incredibles 2 [Blu-ray]
• Ant-Man and the Wasp (2x) [Blu-ray]
• A Quiet Place
• Bad Times at the El Royale [Blu-ray]
• Mary Poppins Returns
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse [Blu-ray]

The Award Season Awesome (A):

• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
• Papillon
• First Man
• Green Book
• Vice
• Eighth Grade
• The Wife

The Highly Enjoyable (Solid A):

• Deadpool 2 [Blu-ray]
• Upgrade [Blu-ray]
• Ocean’s Eight [Blu-ray]
• Tag
• Crazy Rich Asians [Blu-ray]
• Love Simon
• Isle of Dogs
• A Simple Favor [Blu-ray]
• Overlord
• Aquaman
• Dumplin’ [Netflix Original]
• Searching
• To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before [Netflix Original]

The Award Season Good (A-/B+):

• Christopher Robin
• BlacKkKlansman
• White Boy Rick
• Creed II
• Unsane
• Colette
• Boy Erased
• Adrift
• Ben Is Back

The Guilty Pleasures (A for Effort):

• Kissing Booth [Netflix Original]
• Sorry To Bother You
• Rampage
• Hunter Killer
• Peter Rabbit
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before [Netflix Original]

The Good (Solid B):

• The Cloverfield Paradox [Netflix Original]
• Den of Thieves
• Hotel Artemis
• How It Ends [Netflix Original]
• Like Father [Netflix Original]
• Smallfoot
• Venom
• The Old Man and the Gun
• Hereditary
• On the Basis of Sex
• The Commuter
• Nutcracker and the Four Realms
• Juliet, Naked

The Just Okay (B-/C+):

• Bad Samaritan
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
• Birthmarked
• Mile 22
• Operation Finale
• Kin
• Peppermint
• Bohemian Rhapsody [Blu-ray]
• Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• Wreck-It Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks the Internet
• Annihilation
• Bird Box [Netflix Original]
• Beautiful Boy
• The House with a Clock in its Walls
• Radium Girls

The Neither Good Nor Bad (C):

• When We First Met [Netflix Original]
• A Wrinkle In Time
• Skyscraper
• Equalizer 2

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society [Netflix Original]
  

• Book Club
• Front Runner
• Destination Wedding
• Life Itself
• Mary Queen of Scots
• Mortal Engines
• Welcome to Marwen
• Red Sparrow
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Winchester: The House that Ghosts Built

The Bad (D):

• Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
• The Meg
• Pacific Rim: Uprising
• Widows

Deeply Disappointing: 

• Mission: Impossible 6: Fallout
• The Predator
• Robin Hood
• Proud Mary
• The Little Stranger
• The Sisters Brothers

Couldn’t Finish:

• The Favourite
• How To Talk To Girls at Parties

Past Rankings from old blog:

• 2008 and 2008 Revised
• 2009
• 2010
• 2011
• 2012
• 2013
• 2014
• 2015
• 2016
• 2017

Which movies this you see this year? Anything not on my list that you recommend? Let us know in the comments section.