I use Letterboxd to keep track of my movies. If you’re not familiar, it’s like Goodreads, but for movies.* It’s great for keeping track of what you’ve watched, and it also allows you to make as many lists as you want, which is handy when you want to slice and dice things. Among other lists, I keep a list of movies I’ve watched in a given year in movie theaters.
*If you’re not familiar with Goodreads, then do some googling as both of these sites are great for list-making fans who like to give opinions (or not).
Because nearly all movies I watch at theaters are current releases, this list also doubles nicely as a Top-10 list.
And we’re going to get to that Top-10 List in a second. But first, I need to pick my favorite movie of 2018.
Without further ado, my favoirite movie of 2018 was……
Eighth Grade
Eighth Grade is written and directed by Bo Burnham and stars Elsie Fisher who carries that movie on her slumped shoulders. Read my original review here.
Without further ado, here are all the films I watched in 2018 in theaters, ranked.
My 2018 five-star movies (top 10 are bolded)
- Eighth Grade
- Lady Bird
- Tully
- I, Tonya
- The Rider
- A Star is Born
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor
- The Hate U Give
- Widows
- The Favourite
- Coco
- Black Panther
- Avengers Infinity War
- First Man
Of note: The Lady Bird poster isn’t part of my 2018 Top 10. This was my third in-theater viewing, catching a friend up with my 2017 top movie. (It was also the last second-run movie I watched at the Laurelhurst Theater.) Coco is the same deal. It was a 2017 movie I caught up with in 2018.
2018 four-star reviews:
- A Simple Favor
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Outside In
- Three Identical Strangers
- Ocean’s Eight
- BlackKKlansman
- A Quiet Place
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Sorry to Bother You
- Every Day
- Mary Poppins Returns
- Love, Simon
- The Florida Project
- Phantom Thread
2018 three-star reviews:
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- The Post
- Darkest Hour
- Crazy Rich Asians
- Solo: A Star Wars Story
- The Shape of Water
2018 two-star reviews:
- The Sisters Brothers
- A Wrinkle in Time
- First Reformed
- Boy Erased
- Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
- Flash Gordon
There were no one-star reviewed movies in the theaters in 2018!
And here’s my list of theaters visited: Academy Theater, Century 16 Eastport, Hollywood Theatre, Kiggens Theater, Laurelhurst Theater, Living Room Theater, McMenamins Baghdad Theater, McMenamins Mission Theater, McMenamins Kennedy School Theater, McMenamins St Johns Theater, Regal City Center Stadium 12, Regal Fox Tower, Regal Lloyd Center, Regal Pioneer Place, St. Johns Twin
