Films in 2018 Review

/ January 6, 2019

It’s been a few days since the new year started, but before diving into 2019, I wanted to wrap up what I watched in 2018. I’m not listing all the new-to-me movies I watched this past year (you can look at that on my Letterboxd here, or look through my monthly entries), but I’ll be breaking down my viewing habits and looking at the new releases I saw, all the movies I revisited, and everything I saw in theaters in 2018.

New-to-Me: 282

Re-Watched: 82

Total: 360*

*4 of my re-watches were also films I discovered in 2018, so they weren’t counted again in the grand total.

New-to-Me Films by Decade:

  • 1920s – 3
  • 1930s – 26
  • 1940s – 39
  • 1950s – 29
  • 1960s – 25
  • 1970s – 22
  • 1980s – 23
  • 1990s – 16
  • 2000s – 13
  • 2010s – 86

I watched a lot fewer new-to-me movies than I have in past years, my lowest to date since starting my blog. Much of that is due to my personal life becoming a little busier throughout the year. But I did revisit a lot of old favorites, and I was lucky to see a good amount of them in the theater! 2018 had the highest amount of theater trips in a single year for me, between going out to see lots of older movies on the big screen and catching up with new releases.

List of Re-Watched Films:

  1. The Apartment (1960)
  2. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  3. Get Out (2017)
  4. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
  5. Marty (1955)
  6. The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
  7. It Happened One Night (1934)
  8. Black Panther (2018)*
  9. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  10. The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
  11. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  12. Vertigo (1958)
  13. City Lights (1931)
  14. Grease (1978)
  15. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  16. Stalag 17 (1953)
  17. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
  18. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
  19. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)*
  20. An American in Paris (1951)
  21. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  22. High Noon (1952)
  23. The Producers (1967)
  24. Ocean’s Eleven (1960)
  25. The Incredibles (2004)
  26. Incredibles 2 (2018)*
  27. Jurassic Park (1993)
  28. West Side Story (1961)
  29. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  30. All the President’s Men (1976)
  31. Flying Down to Rio (1933)
  32. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  33. Roberta (1935)
  34. Top Hat (1935)
  35. Follow the Fleet (1936)
  36. Swing Time (1936)
  37. Shall We Dance (1937)
  38. Carefree (1938)
  39. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
  40. The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
  41. Bullitt (1968)
  42. Anchors Aweigh (1945)
  43. Magnolia (1999)
  44. The Big Lebowski (1998)
  45. Written on the Wind (1956)
  46. Dark Victory (1939)
  47. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  48. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018)
  49. Boogie Nights (1997)
  50. The Goodbye Girl (1977)
  51. A Star Is Born (1937)
  52. A Star Is Born (1954)
  53. A Star Is Born (1976)
  54. Rear Window (1954)
  55. Cat People (1942)
  56. Lady Bird (2017)
  57. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  58. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
  59. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  60. Strangers on a Train (1951)
  61. The Exorcist (1973)
  62. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
  63. The 39 Steps (1935)
  64. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  65. The Candidate (1972)
  66. Psycho (1960)
  67. Gilda (1946)
  68. The Sniper (1952)
  69. The Threat (1949)
  70. Out of the Past (1947)
  71. Body Heat (1981)
  72. The Woman in the Window (1944)
  73. The Killing (1956)
  74. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  75. Schindler’s List (1993)
  76. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
  77. White Christmas (1954)
  78. Mary Poppins (1964)
  79. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  80. My Man Godfrey (1936)
  81. Double Indemnity (1944)
  82. Brief Encounter (1945)

*also a first-time watch in 2018

List of Films I Saw in Theaters (in italics marks a re-watch):

  1. Darkest Hour
  2. The Post
  3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  4. Phantom Thread
  5. I, Tonya
  6. All the Money in the World
  7. Molly’s Game
  8. Get Out
  9. Call Me by Your Name

  10. Black Panther*
  11. The Philadelphia Story
  12. Game Night
  13. Annihilation
  14. A Wrinkle in Time
  15. Vertigo
  16. Ready Player One
  17. A Quiet Place
  18. Grease

  19. Isle of Dogs
  20. Avengers: Infinity War*
  21. Tully
  22. Sunset Blvd.
  23. Deadpool 2
  24. Solo: A Star Wars Story
  25. Book Club
  26. The Producers
  27. Ocean’s Eight
  28. Hereditary
  29. The Incredibles
  30. Incredibles 2*
  31. Upgrade
  32. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
  33. West Side Story
  34. Ant-Man and the Wasp
  35. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  36. Sorry to Bother You
  37. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
  38. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  39. Christopher Robin
  40. The Spy Who Dumped Me
  41. The Big Lebowski
  42. BlacKkKlansman
  43. Crazy Rich Asians
  44. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  45. Juliet, Naked
  46. The Wife
  47. Rear Window
  48. A Star Is Born
  49. Shadow of a Doubt
  50. An American Werewolf in London
  51. First Man
  52. The Old Man & the Gun
  53. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  54. Strangers on a Train

  55. The Exorcist
  56. The 39 Steps
  57. Beautiful Boy
  58. Free Solo
  59. Psycho
  60. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  61. Boy Erased
  62. Suspiria
  63. Widows
  64. Ralph Breaks the Internet
  65. Green Book
  66. Schindler’s List
  67. White Christmas
  68. At Eternity’s Gate
  69. The Favourite
  70. Mary Poppins Returns
  71. Roma
  72. If Beale Street Could Talk
  73. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

*watched twice in theaters

List of New Releases I Saw (ordered by release date):

  1. The Cloverfield Paradox
  2. Black Panther
  3. Annihilation
  4. Game Night
  5. A Wrinkle in Time
  6. Ready Player One
  7. You Were Never Really Here
  8. A Quiet Place
  9. Blockers
  10. Isle of Dogs
  11. Avengers: Infinity War
  12. Tully
  13. First Reformed
  14. Deadpool 2
  15. Book Club
  16. Solo: A Star Wars Story
  17. Upgrade
  18. Hereditary
  19. Ocean’s Eight
  20. Incredibles 2
  21. Set It Up
  22. Ava Gardner, the Gipsy of Hollywood
  23. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
  24. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  25. Ant-Man and the Wasp
  26. Sorry to Bother You
  27. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
  28. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  29. Eighth Grade
  30. Christopher Robin
  31. The Spy Who Dumped Me
  32. BlacKkKlansman
  33. Crazy Rich Asians
  34. The Wife
  35. Juliet, Naked
  36. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
  37. Private Life
  38. A Star Is Born
  39. The Old Man & the Gun
  40. Free Solo
  41. First Man
  42. Beautiful Boy
  43. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  44. They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead
  45. The Other Side of the Wind
  46. Suspiria
  47. Boy Erased
  48. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  49. Widows
  50. Green Book
  51. At Eternity’s Gate
  52. Ralph Breaks the Internet
  53. Roma
  54. The Favourite
  55. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  56. Mary Poppins Returns
  57. If Beale Street Could Talk

That about wraps up my 2018 in films, though of course awards season really gets underway tonight with the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards! As I normally try to do, I may put together a couple of Oscar history-related posts leading up to the 91st Academy Awards, but we’ll see. Anyway, I wish you all a wonderful year in movies in 2019!

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