This isn’t by any means complete but I’ve divided into 3 main categories and a couple of subcategories. A lot of what I’ve watched this year isn’t on here if it was about where I expected it. If I had a strong reaction it’s below.
Really Enjoyed/Recommend
Annihilation
The Lighthouse
Dark Passage
The Iron Giant
The Right Stuff
The Lure
The Witch
Below*
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Black ‘47
Vice
Two Men in Manhattan
Bridge of Spies*
Bride of Re-animator*
A Most Violent Year
I am a Hero
Bushwick*
Dunkirk
Bad Day at Black Rock
Angel Heart
Forbidden Planet
*exceeded my expectations of what I was going to get without necessarily being a recommendation, but enjoyable
Overrated/Disappointed (none of these are necessarily bad but nowhere as good as I’d hoped or heard)
Melancholia
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Out of the Past
John Wick 3
Robert the Bruce
The Dead Don’t Die
Cabin Fever
Parents
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Kingsman 2
2036: Origin Unknown (especially after Annihilation)
Beyond Re-Animator
2LDK
Canaries
Society
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Velvet Goldmine
Summer of 84
Jennifer’s Body
Garbage Fire/Why do I do this to myself?
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Mad Cowgirl (Chekov Cum Noises Award of 2019)
Crime Zone (David Carradine)
The Humanity Bureau (Bad Nicholas Cage Movie but not the enjoyable kind)
Night of the Living Dead 3D: Reanimation (……)
Bus Stop (aged so badly it made it unwatchable)
Future Force (David Carradine from Beyond the grave: Hey no fair you got me twice!)
Geostorm (part of it was expected but still laughably bad)