Movies to watch in 2018
by vrtualme | created - 10 Sep 2018 | updated - 27 Sep 2019 | PublicThis is a list of movies being released in 2018 that I want to see.
My notes for each movie are
- The release date
- An * if I'm really excited about it
- Clips from random web articles I've read to remind me why I want to see it
I delete movies from this list as I view them. Add more as I discover new films.
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1. Venom (2018)
PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A failed reporter is bonded to an alien entity, one of many symbiotes who have invaded Earth. But the being takes a liking to Earth and decides to protect it.
Director: Ruben Fleischer | Stars: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze
Votes: 538,017 | Gross: $213.52M
2. First Man (2018)
PG-13 | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler
Votes: 202,165 | Gross: $44.94M
10.12 "There's a lot of talent pouring into Universal's upcoming historical drama First Man. Written by Josh Singer of Spotlight, directed by Damien Chazelle of La La Land, and produced by Steven Spielberg, First Man tells the riveting story of Apollo 11, the mission that saw Neil Armstrong become the first human to set foot on the lunar surface. Ryan Gosling steps into the space boots as Armstrong, leading an amazing cast that also includes Claire Foy and Corey Stoll."
3. Await Further Instructions (2018)
TV-MA | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A family's Christmas takes a strange turn when they awake to find themselves trapped inside and begin receiving mysterious instructions through the television.
Director: Johnny Kevorkian | Stars: Sam Gittins, Neerja Naik, Abigail Cruttenden, David Bradley
Votes: 9,662
10.6 "There are disastrous family reunions, and then there's whatever's happening in the trailer for Await Further Instructions, a UK sci-fi horror film about a family that wakes up to find all their windows and doors blocked by a strange black shield. Their only clue about what's going on is a sinister message on TV telling them to await further instructions. Once those instructions start arriving, all hell breaks loose, leading this dysfunctional family down a dark path of mystery and violence."
4. The Convent (2018)
81 min | Fantasy, Horror
During the 17th Century a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.
Director: Paul Hyett | Stars: Michael Ironside, Ciarán McMenamin, Rosie Day, Clare Higgins
Votes: 1,631
5. Every Day (2018)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A shy teenager falls for a spirit who wakes up in the body of a different person every morning.
Director: Michael Sucsy | Stars: Angourie Rice, Justice Smith, Debby Ryan, Jeni Ross
Votes: 23,607 | Gross: $6.10M
"Every Day is an unusual romance between a quietly shy teenager named Rhiannon (Angourie Rice) and "A" — a personality, being, thing, whatever you want to call it. "A" is an entity that wakes up every day inhabiting a different person's body, while trying not to overshadow its temporary host's personality whenever possible.
The movie, directed by Michael Sucsy and based on the bestselling YA novel by David Levithan, dives into the relationship that "A" forms when it crosses paths with Rhiannon while residing in the body of Justin, her jerk of a boyfriend. "A's" temporary residence gives Rhiannon a break from Justin and the one perfect day she deserves. The movie continues to follow "A" and Rhiannon's growing relationship as the personality moves from body to body, even occupying Rhiannon at one point."
6. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
Not Rated | 132 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Toby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: José Luis Ferrer, Ismael Fritschi, Juan López-Tagle, Adam Driver
Votes: 22,160 | Gross: $0.39M
"The film follows director Toby Grisoni (Adam Driver), who travels to the small village where he shot his first movie, a Don Quixote adaptation, with the help of non-professional actors from the village. Here he discovers that the Spanish shoemaker (Jonathan Pryce) that he cast for the lead role has been completely consumed by the experience, believing that he is now Don Quixote. From there the movie progresses through an absurd and fantastic series of events as Driver plays a simple yet perfect Sancho Panza to Pryce's wide-eyed, ludicrously charming Quixote. It's a fun movie with a great backstory that makes it that much better."
7. Zoe (I) (2018)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
A story about how synthetic humans can feel and even love and how the people they are involved with react to this concept.
Director: Drake Doremus | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Léa Seydoux, Theo James, Rashida Jones
Votes: 10,275
"Admittedly, director Drake Doremus' dystopian near-future love story suffers from a fair bit of untapped potential. But even if it's probably destined never to be thought of as a classic, the film has a poignant overarching message that make it worth watching — it feels like a slow, low-stakes Black Mirror episode, tackling a subject that gets closer to reality every day: how do we deal with artificial intelligence once it becomes smart enough to feel even remotely equal with humans? And what if the AI is programmed so well that it doesn't even know it's synthetic… until it's told it is?
The plot follows Cole (Ewan McGregor), a designer at a company that creates elite robots that are nearly indistinguishable from humans, with the goal of inventing a model that could live compatibly with a human, giving them companionship and allaying the fear of being left by a partner. One of his creations is Zoe (Léa Seydoux), a robot that works with him at the lab. As the story progresses, a complicated (and strange) love story starts to unfold, pitting emotions and humanity itself against an ever-evolving world where old and new ways clash and society struggles with accepting their synthetic programmed companions as either equals or simply slaves."
8. The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
R | 85 min | Horror
A family of four staying at a secluded mobile home park for the night are stalked and then hunted by three masked psychopaths.
Director: Johannes Roberts | Stars: Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison, Lewis Pullman
Votes: 34,670 | Gross: $24.43M
"Despite the quieter response to the sequel from audiences and critics, fans of the original Strangers shouldn't ignore this second go-around, which is just as strong a movie — if not better — than the original.
The Strangers movies are notorious for egregiously stretching the term "based on true events" in their marketing, being inspired by little more than the idea of home invasion. As it turns out, though, that idea is still pretty effective. Moving the action from a couple's home to an empty trailer park, Prey at Night effectively builds on the original's premise of pointless, random violence. It can't be reasoned with, it can't be argued with — it can only be fled.
The sequel gains points over the original for the target family's tendency to fight back, making the game of cat-and-mouse much more of a level playing field than it was in the almost totally nihilistic original. In a lot of ways, the protagonists' tendency to fight back makes this go-around a more rewarding watch."
9. Hellraiser: Judgment (2018 Video)
Not Rated | 81 min | Horror
Detectives Sean and David Carter are on the case to find a gruesome serial killer terrorizing the city. Joining forces with Detective Christine Egerton, they dig deeper into a spiraling maze of horror that may not be of this world.
Director: Gary J. Tunnicliffe | Stars: Damon Carney, Randy Wayne, Alexandra Harris, Heather Langenkamp
Votes: 7,847
10. Pyewacket (2017)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A frustrated, angst-ridden teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.
Director: Adam MacDonald | Stars: Laurie Holden, Nicole Muñoz, Chloe Rose, Eric Osborne
Votes: 11,202
"Pyewacket is a movie from the slow burn school of horror, favoring mood over scary moments and a sense of dread over jump scares. Elevated by strong performances from its mother and daughter leads, the movie sports a concept relatable to anyone who's ever been a teenager — especially a teenager who's made a big mistake or two.
A metaphor for the chaotic emotions of adolescence, the movie wrenches your heart out as it drives toward its inevitable conclusion. While some horror movies scare you by showing you a monster, Pyewacket gets its scares by reminding you of the depths of monstrosity that exist inside yourself."
11. Wildling (2018)
R | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A blossoming teenager uncovers the dark secret behind her traumatic childhood.
Director: Fritz Böhm | Stars: Bel Powley, Brad Dourif, Liv Tyler, Collin Kelly-Sordelet
Votes: 14,322
"Wildling isn't just an underappreciated horror movie — this unsung character study is one of the best movies of 2018. The story of a young woman raised in captivity who enters the real world as a teenager, it's a feral child story that takes its premise very literally.
Directed by Fritz Böhm and written by Böhm and Florian Eder, Wilding is a supernatural horror movie that brings out its fantastical elements slowly, drawing you into its world of believable characters well before it reveals what it really is. It's a movie that tests your allegiances as a viewer, with your sympathies constantly shifting as the circumstances change. To boil it down to its core concept, it's a movie of adolescent self-discovery with a particularly wild twist.
Also to recommend it is a very good performance by its lead, Bel Powley, as well as producer Liv Tyler, making an understated turn as an inscrutable police officer. The movie speeds up quite dramatically in its third act, by then fully shifting from a horror movie version of Room into what is basically Predator — but it's an appropriate transformation, given the subject matter, resulting in a movie that would work for lots of different viewers."
12. Marrowbone (2017)
R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young man and his three younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Director: Sergio G. Sánchez | Stars: George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth
Votes: 39,415 | Gross: $0.00M
"Set in the northeastern United States in 1969, Marrowbone introduces a mother and her four children who have fled across the Atlantic to escape the unspecified abuses of the family patriarch. After the mother dies, the children must maintain the illusion of a healthy family in order to avoid being made wards of the state. As they work to gain the title to their house, they also must contend with a supernatural threat that seems to lurk within the walls, threatening to tear their family apart from the inside out."
13. Veronica (I) (2017)
TV-MA | 105 min | Horror, Mystery
Madrid, 1991. A teen girl finds herself besieged by an evil supernatural force after she played Ouija with two classmates.
Director: Paco Plaza | Stars: Sandra Escacena, Bruna González, Claudia Placer, Iván Chavero
Votes: 47,528
"Veronica introduces the title character as a caretaker for her younger siblings. Mature, capable, and kind, the viewer can't help but feel for her as something sinister begins to wake up around her. She resists the evil, capably defending her siblings from harm like a true heroine — which makes the movie's bleak ending such a gut punch, as you realize that her point of view might not have been so reliable after all."
14. The Cured (2017)
R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A disease that turns people into zombies has been cured. Society discriminates against the once-infected zombies, as do their own families, which causes social issues to arise. This leads to militant government interference.
Director: David Freyne | Stars: Elliot Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Stuart Graham
Votes: 9,393 | Gross: $0.02M
"The Cured opens with Ireland having created a reliable vaccine for the violent disease, with many who have been infected now being reintegrated into society. The problem is, every survivor is able to remember the horrific acts they committed under the influence of the disease with startling clarity, and many are haunted by their involuntary acts of murder and manslaughter. Others who were never infected still harbor distrust for the cured, making for a skeptical and traumatized populace."
15. Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Horror
All hell breaks loose when a strange force animates the puppets up for auction at a convention, setting them on a bloody killing spree that's motivated by an evil as old as time.
Directors: Sonny Laguna, Tommy Wiklund | Stars: Thomas Lennon, Jenny Pellicer, Nelson Franklin, Charlyne Yi
Votes: 4,456
"For what feels like a first for the series, The Littlest Reich takes the Puppet Master premise about as seriously as it deserves to be taken, offering up a genuinely humorous "humans vs. toys" adventure that knows when to deliver clever thrills and good kills.
Even for those who have never seen a Puppet Master movie, The Littlest Reich has a lot to offer, feeling like an unhinged love letter to the greatest excesses of horror violence. Its kill scenes are mini-masterworks of puppetry and practical effects, with nary a moment of CGI blood splatter. It's gross, anarchic, and mean, altogether accomplishing the feat of pushing a long-running D-tier franchise in exciting new directions. Best of all, it never feels too campy or tonally inappropriate. The result is an outrageous breath of fresh air — how many 12th movies in a series can honestly say they accomplished that?"
16. Down a Dark Hall (2018)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A troubled teen named Kit Gordy is forced to join the exclusive Blackwood Boarding School, just to find herself trapped by dark forces around its mysterious headmistress, Madame Duret.
Director: Rodrigo Cortés | Stars: AnnaSophia Robb, Uma Thurman, Isabelle Fuhrman, Victoria Moroles
Votes: 14,913
"Uma Thurman (giving a knowingly theatrical performance)"
17. The Predator (2018)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.
Director: Shane Black | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key
Votes: 143,370 | Gross: $51.02M
9.14
"The latest addition to the series works as kind of a sequel and follows a group of heroes led by Boyd Holbrook. According to actor Thomas Jane, the plot will involve a group of PTSD-stricken soldiers who band together to kill the spine-cracking alien hunters, and as actor Jake Busey (who's playing the son of his dad's character in Predator 2) explained to Pop Culture, the new film "focuses on what the goal of the Predators is, and what their modus operandi, and why they come to the planet, and that type of thing."
Sterling K. Brown—probably best known for American Crime Story—described the film as having "a really wicked sense of humor," which is par for the course with any Shane Black flick. In addition to the aforementioned actors, The Predator will star Olivia Munn, Jacob Tremblay, Trevante Rhodes, Keegan-Michael Key, and Edward James Olmos."
18. The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
PG-13 | 93 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.
Director: David Lowery | Stars: Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover
Votes: 49,585 | Gross: $11.28M
11.28 "rumored to be Redford's last film"
19. Boy Erased (2018)
R | 115 min | Biography, Drama
The son of a Baptist preacher unwillingly participates in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.
Director: Joel Edgerton | Stars: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Joel Edgerton, Russell Crowe
Votes: 42,125 | Gross: $6.79M
11.2
"This time, he's tackling the story of a young man forced into gay conversion therapy by his overbearing Baptist father.
While Edgerton has a supporting role, the main cast is anchored by Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe, who star as the parents of Jared, played by Lucas Hedges. The trailer is an emotional gut-punch from start to finish, with gripping performances by everyone involved, and the fact that it's all based on a true story twists the knife just a little bit deeper. In other words, you can probably expect to see Boy Erased at the Oscars next year."
20. At Eternity's Gate (2018)
PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen
Votes: 39,976 | Gross: $2.29M
21. BlacKkKlansman (2018)
R | 135 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace
Votes: 291,002 | Gross: $49.28M
22. The Happytime Murders (2018)
R | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When the puppet cast of a '90s children's TV show begin to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case.
Director: Brian Henson | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph, Leslie David Baker
Votes: 30,368 | Gross: $20.71M
23. The Little Stranger (2018)
R | 111 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After a doctor is called to visit a crumbling manor, strange things begin to occur.
Director: Lenny Abrahamson | Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Ruth Wilson, Liv Hill
Votes: 10,627 | Gross: $0.71M
24. Three Identical Strangers (2018)
PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to find out why turns into a bizarre and sinister mystery.
Director: Tim Wardle | Stars: Robert Shafran, Michael Domnitz, Howard Schneider, Ellen Cervone
Votes: 39,641 | Gross: $12.32M
25. Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
PG-13 | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children's television host Fred Rogers.
Director: Morgan Neville | Stars: Fred Rogers, Margaret Whitmer, Tom Junod, Joanne Rogers
Votes: 27,106 | Gross: $22.84M
26. Support the Girls (2018)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
The general manager at a highway-side ''sports bar with curves" has her incurable optimism and faith in her girls, her customers and herself tested over the course of a long, strange day.
Director: Andrew Bujalski | Stars: Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula, Zoe Graham
Votes: 8,311 | Gross: $0.13M
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27. Arizona (2018)
TV-MA | 85 min | Comedy, Thriller
Set in the midst of the 2009 housing crisis, this darkly comedic story follows Cassie Fowler, a single mom and struggling realtor whose life goes off the rails when she witnesses a murder.
Director: Jonathan Watson | Stars: Danny McBride, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lolli Sorenson, Luke Wilson
Votes: 8,913
28. Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018)
TV-MA | 116 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
An intimate look into the life and work of the revered master comedian and actor, Robin Williams.
Director: Marina Zenovich | Stars: Robin Williams, Mark Rasmussen, Stan Wilson, John Houseman
Votes: 9,152
29. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
R | 114 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black
Votes: 30,640 | Gross: $1.44M
30. The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.
Director: Desiree Akhavan | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Steven Hauck, Quinn Shephard, Kerry Butler
Votes: 25,603 | Gross: $0.90M
31. Papillon (I) (2017)
R | 133 min | Adventure, Biography, Crime
Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter, Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
Director: Michael Noer | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Damijan Oklopdzic, Christopher Fairbank, Jason Ryan
Votes: 86,114 | Gross: $2.34M
32. Instant Family (2018)
PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Drama
A couple find themselves in over their heads when they foster three children.
Director: Sean Anders | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabela Merced, Gustavo Escobar
Votes: 119,533 | Gross: $67.36M
33. Mortal Engines (2018)
PG-13 | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In a post-apocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and consume each other to survive, two people meet in London and try to stop a conspiracy.
Director: Christian Rivers | Stars: Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Jihae
Votes: 140,655 | Gross: $15.95M
34. Above Suspicion (2019)
R | 104 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The true-crime story leading to the first-ever conviction of an F.B.I. Agent for murder.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston, Sophie Lowe, Johnny Knoxville
Votes: 8,611
35. Climax (I) (2018)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Music
French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile
Votes: 79,333 | Gross: $0.80M
36. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
R | 106 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Director: Marielle Heller | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone
Votes: 56,147 | Gross: $8.80M
37. Beautiful Boy (I) (2018)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama
Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.
Director: Felix van Groeningen | Stars: Steve Carell, Maura Tierney, Jack Dylan Grazer, Oakley Bull
Votes: 99,403 | Gross: $7.65M
38. Truth or Dare (I) (2018)
PG-13 | 100 min | Horror, Thriller
A harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns deadly when someone - or something - begins to punish those who tell a lie or refuse the dare.
Director: Jeff Wadlow | Stars: Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Violett Beane, Hayden Szeto
Votes: 63,315 | Gross: $41.41M
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