The first blog post on the Piecing It Together website seemed like an appropriate place for me to post my annual half way through the year Best of the Year listing. This will also be a test to make sure I’m setup properly for blog posts and it doesn’t try to send this out as some kind of weird podcast episode haha.
Anyway, It’s July 1st… And that means we’re half way through 2018. My movie ranking list will undoubtedly change throughout the rest of the year as there’s plenty of great movies on the horizon, and there’s plenty of movies from earlier in the year that I didn’t get a chance to catch… And also as movies sit with you, they tend to grow and change and you start to appreciate them more (or less)… But as of right now, this is how everything ranks.
A few notes before we get to the list… First of all, this is a list of only the movies I saw in the theater. No movies I saw at home. I’ll decide at some point whether or not I’ll include those in my final list for the full year in December. Although you can rest assured knowing that Netflix’s The Cloverfield Paradox and Mute, two of the biggest disappointments of the year for me would have been all the way on the bottom haha. Also, this list does not include any movies that were released in 2017 and were part of the conversation in 2017, but I just either didn’t get to until 2018 or they hadn’t spread into full wide release yet. Festival appearances don’t count towards that rule… So something like Thoroughbreds that played at Sundance 2017 still counts for 2018 since it wasn’t actually released until this year.
Without any further ado… My ranking of all 36 movies I saw in the theater so far in 2018 (with links to the ones we’ve covered on Piecing It Together).
- Isle Of Dogs
- First Reformed
- Thoroughbreds
- Hereditary
- Rampage
- Deadpool 2
- Avengers: Infinity War
- You Were Never Really Here
- Tully
- Ready Player One
- The Hurricane Heist
- Best F(r)iends Vol. 1
- Black Panther
- A Quiet Place
- Upgrade
- American Animals
- Disobedience
- Super Troopers 2
- Blockers
- Annihilation
- Game Night
- Sicario: Day of the Soldado
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Best (F)riends Vol. 2
- Red Sparrow
- Oceans 8
- Death Wish
- Hostiles
- Tag
- Tomb Raider
- Pacific Rim: Uprising
- Den of Thieves
- Solo: A Star Wars Story
- Early Man
- The Commuter
- Gringo