
But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. How in the world I possibly had the time to crush all these titles, you and I will never truly know as Arthur Conan Doyle once noted, “My mind rebels at stagnation.

I watched exactly 150 movies released in 2018, from all over the world and through a seemingly endless array of late night triple features and early morning viewings (you can check out an article I wrote up on some them here).

Alas, as always, time moves faster than my own wits, and I found myself once again scrambling to track down the late releases of the year, as well as smaller movies that had evaded me earlier. I personally attempted to tackle this enormous year of film at an almost frightful level of precision and speed: I started taking note of all the movies slated to drop throughout the year only days after completing my Top 17 of 2017, and hit the ground running hard to never feel like I was falling behind.
