Most Anticipated Movies of 2018 (in no particular order)
- Border (grans)
- 12 Strong (didn’t live up to the hype)
- Black Panther
- Annihilation…flawed…but looked better and better as a year of flawed movies played out. Watched it twice
- Red Sparrow
- Ready Player One – Couldn’t get through the first fifteen minutes
- Game Night (not bad…it grows on you…still expected more)
- Widows
- Wildlife
- Outlaw King (pretty good movie…I need to rewatch it and pay better attention)
- Boy Erased
- What Keeps You Alive
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – I liked it
- Unsane – ugh…Split of 2018
- You Were Never Really Here
- A Star is Born
- Roma
- Monsters and Men – sucked
- Beautiful Boy
- First Man
- A Quiet Place
- BlackKklansman
- Can You Ever Forgive Me – overrated blah
- Life Itself
- Juliet, Naked – blah
- Aquaman – better than average superhero movie – C+/B-
- Mary Queen of Scots – solid film
- Ben is Back
- Green Book
- Hold the Dark
- The Kindergarten Teacher – dumb
- The Sisters Brothers
- Solo: A Star Wars Story – solid origin story even if it’s super hard to envision the character truly being a young Han Solo
- Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado
- Ant-Man and the Wasp – quit after ten minutes…wasn’t doing it for me
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Beast
- Revenge
- Bad Samaritan – what an awful movie
- Traffik – unmemorable
- The Front Runner
- A Simple Favor
- The Old Man and the Gun – could a 90-minute movie go any slower? No substance to this film.
- Sollers Point – not a bad movie…you could do much worse
- Custody
- First Reformed – terrible…Ethan Hawke as a Best Actor contender? I don’t see it
- Destroyer – awful
- A Kid Like Jake
- Adrift
- Under the Silver Lake
- Upgrade – dumb
- Hotel Artemis – insufferable
- Leave No Trace
- Woman Walks Ahead – true story…you could do far less.
- Hearts Beat Loud – Feel good Hallmark-type movie…Nick Offerman was fantastic in a different type of role for him
- Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
- Shock and Awe
- The Mule
- Papillon
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- Mile 22 – kinda sucked…but okay as a mindless popcorn flick
- The Bookshop
- Kin – intriguing…still trying to figure out its overall point…wondering if this is a prequel for something more…but not curious enough to investigate