Annual Rankings: 2018



2018 was bananas. And I'm a man who likes bananas.



THE BEESH LIST: 2018 
(As always, you didn't ask for it, but HERE IT IS)
EVERY MOVIE I EVER SAW IN 2018 RANKED
BECAUSE I'M AN ABSOLUTE CRAZY PERSON


It's an all time record this year and I'm not sorry - I blame MoviePass - Yeah! A pox on them and their wicked ways of helping blood-sucking cinephiles watch movies at a decent rate!

 As always, it's a lot a words but this year I trimmed and left shortcuts for y'all so you don't develop catatonic seizures from all the scrolling. I'm lookin' out for you!

 2018 was an incredibly challenging year to favor one movie over another (or one movie over like, thirty), but then again it's absolutely asinine to rank a list going beyond ten or even twenty items, so I don't really know what the hell I'm doing with my life? Obviously my unhealthy affection for cinema (and Carpal Tunnel) outweighs any need to eat, sleep or socialize. Seriously though, how am I supposed to compare the nightmarish lullaby of Suspiria against the politically relevant yet explicitly outrageous Sorry To Bother You? Why does my brain categorize movies like an OCD filing cabinet of madness? I digress.

   So anyway, hope you cats like it. If not, it's no beef. I literally do this as a personal hobby (although I sincerely hope you find something good to take away from all my pretentious rambling, and learn to forgive me that Infinity War wasn't included in my top ten). 

 If we're gonna fight, let's be gentlemen (or gentle-ladies) about it, and in the style of Celebrity Deathmatch, I want a good. clean. fight.

 LET'S DO THIS DAMN THING



P.S. If you wish to skip the filibuster and cut right to the chase, here's the list without all my explanatory nonsense.


 -enjoi

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