Emily Yoshida's Best Movies of 2018

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [View in browser]( [Subscribe]( [Brand Logo]( What to Read Today [Emily Yoshida’s Best Movies of 2018 Including directorial debuts, mysterious documentaries, and violent fever dreams.]( By Emily Yoshida [Let’s Predict the 2019 Grammy Nominations Will it be another sausage fest?]( By Dee Lockett [Eighth Grade, Beale Street Among AFI’s Top 10 Movies Green Book also hangs on.]( By Hunter Harris [Which TV Shows and Movies Will Be Nominated for the 2019 Golden Globes? Vulture’s picks in all major categories.]( By Jen Chaney and Nate Jones [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Sotheby’s to Help to Fund an Exhibit on the History of Black Cinema L.A.’s soon-to-open Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (a.k.a. the “Death Star”) beats out smaller midwestern museums for the prize.]( By Whitney Mallett [Dumplin’ Is a Breath of Fresh Air Its world feels so lived-in, its characters so engaging, that you often find yourself wondering about what they’ll do once the cameras stop rolling.]( By Bilge Ebiri A Suggestion from the Strategist [Anker SoundCore Bluetooth Speaker We’ve heard consistently good things about this shockingly affordable Bluetooth speaker.]( [Sonja Morgan’s Improv Comedy Debut Was a Boozy, Glorious Mess Calling it “improv” might be a stretch, but the Real Housewives of New York City star was genuinely hilarious.]( By Molly Fitzpatrick [The Story Behind Scream’s 12-Minute, Still-Terrifying Opening Scare “I wanted it to be just long enough that the audience thinks she might survive it.”]( As told to Lila Shapiro [Counterpart Is Still Stuck Between Worlds in Season Two If only there were a version of this show that was exactly the same, but also slightly different.]( By Kathryn VanArendonk [Cats Fan Lucas Hedges Performs the Song of Rum Tum Tugger, the Cat Who F*cks Cast him in the movie, you cowards!]( By Jackson McHenry [The 10 Best Songs of 2018 Featuring Ariana Grande, Travis Scott, the 1975, Robyn, Juice WRLD, and more.]( By Vulture Editors [6 New Books You Should Read This December A Rock Hudson biography, this year’s Booker Prize winner, and more.]( By Boris Kachka [15 Essential Horror Films Starring People of Color Candyman, Night of the Living Dead, and more.]( By Angelica Jade Bastién [My Brilliant Friend Renewed for a More Brilliant Season Two Saluti!]( By Hunter Harris [Bunnies Are on the Run in the First Watership Down Trailer Some of your favorite actors are now rabbits in peril.]( By Jordan Crucchiola [Poetry Twitter Erupts Over a Plagiarist in Their Midst Ailey O’Toole was a young poet on the rise, until colleagues found she’d stolen their verse.]( By Kat Rosenfield [A Maine Movie Is $1M Worth of Movie for $75K Featuring Gary Richardson, Ana Fabrega, John Reynolds, and more.]( By Luke Kelly-Clyne [Mahershala Ali’s True Detective Character Was Written As White How Ali convinced Nic Pizzolatto the character could be black.]( By Hunter Harris [Why Crazy Rich Asians Flopped in China Cultural, aesthetic, and political factors conspired to derail the romantic comedy’s box-office prospects in the world’s second-biggest movie market.]( By Chris Lee [Ellen DeGeneres Attempts to Be Relatable in the Trailer for Her Netflix Special DeGeneres’s first stand-up special in 15 years debuts later this month.]( By Megh Wright [The Party’s Just Beginning Is Karen Gillan’s Pitch-black Directorial Debut There’s very little upside in this tale of depression and suicide in a quaint little Scottish town.]( By Emily Yoshida [Remembering Oksana Shachko, ‘Artist, Activist, Terrorist’ The Femen co-founder was beaten, jailed, and threatened with execution. It was beautiful to watch her dance.]( By Nicholas Mir Chaikin [André Aciman Wants a Call Me by Your Name Sequel Too, So He’s Started Writing It This one will probably have a happy ending, right? Right!?]( By Halle Kiefer [Kanye Apologizes for His Phone Etiquette During Broadway’s The Cher Show Cast member Jarrod Spector called Yeezy out on Twitter and, look, he’s not going to deny it. But the show was great!]( By Halle Kiefer [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read more from Vulture](     [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily)   |   [privacy notice](   |   [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com New York Media LLC 75 Varick St., New York, NY 10013 Copyright © 2018, All rights reserved