What I Watched in 2018

In 2017 for the first time I kept a list of everything I watched and posted it on my blog at the end of the year. I'd like to start doing that every year, so here's the second annual list of What I Watched. In 2017 I hit 275 individual movies and 11 seasons of television, while this year I raised that up to 293 movies and 15 seasons of television. Though actually it was far more than that; not only did I generally do a terrible job of tracking what I watched over the last several months of the year (meaning I'm sure there are things that I forgot to add to the list), but I was also a screener for AFI Fest for the first time, and I didn't list any of the 75 submission films I watched for that gig (because they were mostly terrible and not what many people would consider real movies). 

I didn't count anything that I didn't watch in its entirety, so no movies that I fell asleep in at festivals. (Tremendous apologies to Her Smell and Transit, the annual victims of my horrendous sleep schedule during TIFF. Same with We the Animals at Sundance. I loved what I saw of all of you and I hope to do you justice in 2019!) I also didn't count any TV seasons that I haven't completed yet, such as the current season of The Good Place. 

So here's the complete list of everything I watched. Movies are in alphabetical order first, TV seasons in alphabetical order at the end. Everything followed by an asterisk is something I'd seen at least once prior to 2018, or, in the case of movies from 2018, the asterisk means I watched them twice this year. 

Goals for 2019: Finally hit 300 movies, and watch a hell of a lot more TV. There are just too many great shows out there I've been neglecting. 

FILMS

1.   About a Boy (Chris & Paul Weitz, 2002)*

2.   Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes (Robert S. Bader, 2018)

3.   All the Money in the World (Ridley Scott, 2017)

4.   Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)*

5.   American Animals (Bart Layton, 2018)

6.   American Made (Doug Liman, 2017)

7.   And Breathe Normally (Isold Uggagottir, 2018)

8.   Angelo (Markus Schleinzer, 2018)

9.   Anna and the Apocalypse (John McPhail, 2018)

10. Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018)

11. Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed, 2018)

12. Aquaman (James Wan, 2018)

13. Arizona (Jonathan Watson, 2018)

14. Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhang-ke, 2018)

15. Assassination Nation (Sam Levinson, 2018)

16. At Eternity’s Gate (Julian Schnabel, 2018)

17. Atomic Blonde (David Leitch, 2017)*

18. Avengers: Infinity War (Anthony & Joe Russo, 2018)*

19. Bad Times at the El Royale (Drew Goddard, 2018)

20. Beautiful Boy (Felix van Groeningen, 2018)

21. Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)

22. Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)*

23. Beirut (Brad Anderson, 2018)

24. Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012)

25. The Biggest Little Farm (John Chester, 2018)

26. Bird on a Wire (John Badham, 1990)*

27. Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra, 2018)

28. Black 47 (Lance Daly, 2018)

29. BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018)

30. Black Panther (Ryan Coogler, 2018)

31. Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada, 2018)

32. Blockers (Kay Cannon, 2018)

33. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

34. Border (Ali Abbasi, 2018)

35. Borg vs. McEnroe (Janus Metz, 2017)

36. The Boss Baby (Tom McGrath, 2017)

37. Bowie: The Last Five Years (Francis Whately, 2018)

38. Boy Erased (Joel Edgerton, 2018)

39. A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris, 1991)*

40. Burden (Andrew Heckler, 2018)

41. Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)*

42. Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)*

43. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller, 2018)

44. The Captain (Robert Schwentke, 2017)

45. The Catcher Was a Spy (Ben Lewin, 2018)

46. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, 2010)

47. Chef Flynn (Cameron Yates, 2018)

48. The Childhood of a Leader (Brady Corbet, 2015)

49. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)*

50. City Slickers (Ron Underwood, 1991)*

51. Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)*

52. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)*

53. Clue (Jonathan Lynn, 1985)*

54. The Cold Blue (Erik Nelson, 2018)

55. Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2018)

56. Colette (Wash Westmoreland, 2018)

57. Coming Home (Hal Ashby, 1978)

58. The Commuter (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2018)

59. Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu, 2018)

60. Creed (Ryan Coogler, 2015)*

61. Creed II (Steven Caple Jr., 2018)

62. Crime + Punishment (Stephen Maing, 2018)

63. Crystal Swan (Darya Zhuk, 2018)

64. Custody (Xavier Legrand, 2017)

65. Darkest Hour (Joe Wright, 2017)*

66. Dark Money (Kimberly Reed, 2018)

67. Dark Night (Tim Sutton, 2016)

68. Deadpool 2 (David Leitch, 2018)

69. The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, 2017)*

70. Destroyer (Karyn Kusama, 2018)

71. Diane (Kent Jones, 2018)

72. Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988)*

73. Disobedience (Sebastián Lelio, 2017)

74. Dont Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967)

75. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot (Gus Van Sant, 2018)

76. Draft Day (Ivan Reitman, 2014)

77. Easy A (Will Gluck, 2010)*

78. Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2014)

79. Eighth Grade (Bo Burnam, 2018)*

80. Election (Alexander Payne, 1999)*

81. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)*

82. An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (Jim Hosking, 2018)

83. Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi, 2018)

84. Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR, 2017)*

85. Fahrenheit 11/9 (Michael Moore, 2018)

86. A Fantastic Woman (Sebastián Lelio, 2017)

87. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)

88. Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (Paul McGuigan, 2017)

89. Filmworker (Tony Zierra, 2017)

90. First Man (Damien Chazelle, 2018)*

91. First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)

92. Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz, 2017)*

93. Free Solo (E. Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin, 2018)

94. The Freshman (Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1925)

95. The Front Runner (Jason Reitman, 2018)

96. A Futile and Stupid Gesture (David Wain, 2018)

97. Game Night (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, 2018)

98. Girls Trip (Malcolm D. Lee, 2017)

99. Gloria (Sebastián Lelio, 2013)

100.      Gloria Bell (Sebastián Lelio, 2018)

101.      The Great Buster: A Celebration (Peter Bogdanovich, 2018)

102.      Green Book (Peter Farrelly, 2018)*

103.      The Guilty (Gustav Moller, 2018)

104.      Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (Damien Chazelle, 2009)*

105.      Hal (Amy Scott, 2018)

106.      Hale County This Morning, This Evening (Ramell Ross, 2018)

107.      Half the Picture (Amy Adrion, 2018)

108.      Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)*

109.      Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971)*

110.      The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr., 2018)

111.      Hearts Beat Loud (Brett Haley, 2018)

112.      Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro, 2004)*

113.      Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018)*

114.      The Hero (Brett Haley, 2017)

115.      His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)*

116.      Hold the Dark (Jeremy Saulnier, 2018)

117.      Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)

118.      Hotel Mumbai (Anthony Maras, 2018)

119.      The Hot Rock (Peter Yates, 1972)

120.      Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016)*

121.      If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018)

122.      The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum, 2014)*

123.      The Imposter (Bart Layton, 2012)

124.      In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, 1967)

125.      Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird, 2018)

126.      Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2013)*

127.      In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)

128.      Into the Abyss (Werner Herzog, 2011)

129.      Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson, 2018)

130.      It Comes at Night (Trey Edward Shults, 2017)

131.      It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)*

132.      I Think We’re Alone Now (Reed Morano, 2018)

133.      Jane Fonda in Five Acts (Susan Lacy, 2018)

134.      Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (Chris Smith, 2017)

135.      The Journey (Nick Hamm, 2016)

136.      Juliet, Naked (Jesse Peretz, 2018)

137.      Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (J.A. Bayona, 2018)

138.      The Kid (Charlie Chaplin, 1921)*

139.      The Kindergarten Teacher (Sara Colangelo, 2018)

140.      King of Jazz (John Murray Anderson, 1930)

141.      The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper, 2010)*

142.      Kursk (Thomas Vinterberg, 2018)

143.      Kusama: Infinity (Heather Lenz, 2018)

144.      The Land of Steady Habits (Nicole Holofcener, 2018)

145.      Last Men in Aleppo (Feras Fayyad & Steen Johannessen, 2017)

146.      Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh, 2017)

147.      Leave No Trace (Debra Granik, 2018)*

148.      Lenny (Bob Fosse, 1974)

149.      Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner, 1987)*

150.      Let Me Fall (Baldvin Z, 2018)

151.      The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)*

152.      The Long Dumb Road (Hannah Fidell, 2018)

153.      The Longest Yard (Robert Aldrich, 1974)

154.      Love, Simon (Greg Berlanti, 2018)

155.      M (Fritz Lang, 1931)*

156.      Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker, 2018)

157.      The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1934)

158.      Marathon Man (John Schlessinger, 1976)*

159.      Mary Queen of Scots (Josie Rourke, 2018)

160.      Maya (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2018)

161.      Meeting Gorbachev (Werner Herzog & AndréSinger, 2018)

162.      The Memphis Belle (William Wyler, 1944)

163.      The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (Akira Kurosawa, 1945)

164.      The Meyerowitz Stories (Noah Baumbach, 2017)

165.      Mid90s (Jonah Hill, 2018)

166.      Minding the Gap (Bing Liu, 2018)*

167.      The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan, 2018)

168.      Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990)*

169.      Mission Impossible: Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)*

170.      Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011)*

171.      Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)*

172.      Monster (Anthony Mandler, 2018)

173.      Monsters and Men (Reinaldo Marcus Green, 2018)

174.      Mudbound (Dee Rees, 2017)*

175.      The Mule (Clint Eastwood, 2018)

176.      Mutangi/Maya/M.I.A. (Stephen Loveridge, 2018)

177.      My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2004)

178.      NANCY (Christina Choe, 2018)

179.      National Treasure (Jon Turteltaub, 2004)*

180.      Never Goin’ Back (Augustine Frizzell, 2018)

181.      Never Look Away (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2018)

182.      New Jack City (Mario Van Peebles, 1991)

183.      Ocean’s 8 (Gary Ross, 2018)

184.      The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery, 2018)

185.      Ophelia (Claire McCarthy, 2018) 

186.      The Oslo Diaries (Mor Loushy & Daniel Sivan, 2018)

187.      Our New President (Maxim Pozdorovkin, 2018)

188.      Outlaw King (David Mackenzie, 2018)

189.      Out of Blue (Carol Morley, 2018)

190.      Paddington (Paul King, 2014)

191.      Paddington 2 (Paul King, 2017)

192.      The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)*

193.      The Past (Asghar Farhadi, 2013)

194.      Paterno (Barry Levinson, 2018)

195.      Peterloo (Mike Leigh, 2018)

196.      The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, 1921)

197.      Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)

198.      Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2014)*

199.      Piercing (Nicolas Pesce, 2018)

200.      The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, 1963)

201.      Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (Wim Wenders, 2018)

202.      The Post (Steven Spielberg, 2017)

203.      Predator (Shane Black, 2018)

204.      The Price of Everything (Nathaniel Kahn, 2018)

205.      The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987)*

206.      Private Life (Tamara Jenkins, 2018)*

207.      A Private War (Matthew Heineman, 2018)

208.      Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz (Barry Avrich, 2018)

209.      Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)*

210.      Punchline (David Seltzer, 1988)

211.      Puzzle (Marc Turtletaub, 2018)

212.      Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry, 2015)

213.      A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018)*

214.      Quincy (Rashida Jones & Alan Hicks, 2018)

215.      Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)*

216.      RBG (Betsy West & Julie Cohen, 2018)

217.      Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg, 2018)

218.      Red Joan (Trevor Nunn, 2018)

219.      Red Sparrow (Francis Lawrence, 2018)

220.      Relaxer (Joel Potrykus, 2018)

221.      The Rider (Chloé Zhao, 2017)

222.      The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, 1983)

223.      ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)*

224.      Roman J. Israel, Esq. (Dan Gilroy, 2017)

225.      Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2012)

226.      The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)*

227.      Safety Last (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1923)

228.      Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (Matt Tyrnauer, 2017)

229.      Searching (Aneesh Chaganty, 2018)

230.      Sew the Winter to My Skin (Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, 2018)

231.      Shampoo (Hal Ashby, 1975)*

232.      The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017)*

233.      The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)*

234.      Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018)

235.      Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2018)

236.      A Simple Favor (Paul Feig, 2018)

237.      The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard, 2018)

238.      Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins, 1998)

239.      Smokey and the Bandit (Hal Needham, 1977)

240.      Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard, 2018)

241.      Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2018)*

242.      Spaceballs (Mel Brooks, 1986)*

243.      Spider-Man: Homecoming (Jon Watts, 2017)*

244.      Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, & Rodney Rothman, 2018)

245.      Spielberg (Susan Lacy, 2017)

246.      The Spy Who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert, 1977)*

247.      The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (Henry Durham, 2018)

248.      A Star is Born (George Cukor, 1954)

249.      A Star is Born (Frank Pierson, 1976)

250.      A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper, 2018)

251.      Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1928)

252.      Step (Amanda Lipitz, 2017)

253.      Strong Island (Yance Ford, 2017)

254.      Styx (Wolfgang Fischer, 2018)

255.      The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg, 1974)

256.      Sunset (LászlóNemes, 2018)

257.      Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007)*

258.      Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1988)

259.      Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski, 2018)

260.      Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)*

261.      Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018)

262.      Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton, 2017)

263.      Tag (Jeff Tomsic, 2018)

264.      The Tale (Jennifer Fox, 2018)

265.      The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)

266.      Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle, 2018)*

267.      Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)

268.      Tomb Raider (Roar Uthaug, 2018)

269.      Tully (Jason Reitman, 2018)

270.      Tyrel (Sebastián Silva, 2018)

271.      Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Luc Besson, 2017)

272.      Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)

273.      Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, 2004)

274.      Vice (Adam McKay, 2018)

275.      Vox Lux (Brady Corbet, 2018)

276.      Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg, 1971)*

277.      War for the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves, 2017)

278.      Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)*

279.      White Boy Rick (Yann Demange, 2018)

280.      Widows (Steve McQueen, 2018)*

281.      The Wife (Bjorn Runge, 2017)

282.      Wildlife (Paul Dano, 2018)

283.      The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2018)

284.      The Wind (Emma Tammi, 2018)

285.      Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014)

286.      Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen, 2017)

287.      Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville, 2018)

288.      The Wound (John Trengove, 2017)

289.      A Wrinkle in Time (Ava DuVernay, 2018)

290.      The Yakuza (Sydney Pollack, 1974)

291.      Yardie (Idris Elba, 2018)

292.      You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsey, 2017)

293.      Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)*

TV

1.  Atlanta: Season 1

2.  Barry: Season 1

3.  Better Call Saul: Season 2

4.  The Crown: Season 1

5.  Dear White People: Season 1

6.  Dear White People: Season 2

7.  Freaks and Geeks: Season 1

8.  The Good Place: Season 1

9.  The Good Place: Season 2

10.The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 1

11.The Office: Season 1

12.The Office: Season 2

13.Runaways: Season 1

14.She’s Gotta Have It: Season 1

15.Silicon Valley: Season 5