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The Esau McCaulley Podcast

Best Movies of 2024 with NY Times Film Critic Alissa Wilkinson

The Esau McCaulley Podcast

Esau McCaulley

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson, joins the show to talk about her journey to becoming a movie reviewer, the best films of 2024, and what makes a movie truly great. Esau and Alissa also dive into their favorite Christmas movies and the state of religious films in the industry today.

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Passion in my pocket so my pennies should be with a selling these cheap so I'm buying that this freedom is free I've been becoming me see when Jesus taking the lead with purpose I bleed and rise like doing under the heat defeat is never you can't reattach with a sever what's bringing you pleasure can tell you where you stacking your

0:24.3

treasure when storm is your weather know that it gets worse for it's better

0:31.4

welcome to the eastall McCauley podcast I'm your host Esau McCauley today on the

0:37.4

podcast we are blessed to have Alyssa Wilson, a movie reviewer for the New York Times. Thank you for coming on our podcast, Alyssa. Yeah, I'm so glad I could. It's a nice cold day here in New York, and I am tucked into a soundproof booth at the time so I can chat with you.

0:56.0

Oh, that's pretty cool.

0:57.5

I've never actually been in one of the soundproof booths, but I've seen them when I visited there.

1:01.0

Yeah.

1:02.0

So we have this thing in the podcast where we like to ask people about stuff that they're not actually skilled in. So since you're doing

1:11.6

movies, we're going to ask you about television. And so we're going to ask you to do this. And

1:17.5

we don't get people, we don't get people the opportunity to prepare these questions. So this is

1:21.1

Alyssa off the dome. Just this. So I need you to think of three TV shows that explain your energy during middle or high school.

1:32.1

So like what are the three TV shows that popped into your mind that you used to watch that you kind of, these are my shows?

1:39.0

So this is a little tricky.

1:41.4

Actually, this is great because I was homeschooled.

1:44.0

And I wasn't just homeschooled.

1:45.7

I was like very homeschooled.

1:47.5

Oh, my goodness.

1:48.1

You know what I mean?

1:48.9

Yeah, in the 90s.

1:51.2

So at the time, I would say like a huge amount of what I watched, and this probably

1:58.3

explains a little bit about me, were like those documentaries

2:01.2

that they ran during pledge drives on PBS.

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