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Best Movies of 2024

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Josh Larson opens the episode by framing it as the final installment in Think Christian's best-of-2024 series. He says they saved movies for last and introduces Rosalyn Hernandez and J.R. Forasteros for a discussion of the year's best films. Josh starts with a broad question about how everyone watched movies in 2024, asking whether they mostly saw them in theaters, on the couch via streaming, or even on their phones. That opening gives the conversation a practical, personal tone before it moves into the films themselves. Josh says he is especially excited about the picks Rosalyn and J.R. brought to discuss, and he teases titles that include gossipy Catholic priests, a former Marine up against corrupt cops, and whatever Demi Moore becomes by the end of The Substance. The discussion around The Substance becomes especially vivid. Rosalyn describes the film's horror not only in terms of gore and disfigurement but also in terms of the fear and sadness wrapped up in living in a culture that objectifies women's bodies. Josh follows by naming a sequence in which Demi Moore's character prepares for a date and keeps changing what she wears, how she styles her hair, and how she presents herself in the mirror. The panel treats that scene as emotionally devastating rather than merely stylized. They connect the film's doppelganger premise to questions of appearance, self-judgment, and the strain of being watched. The episode keeps circling back to the sadness underneath the spectacle. It also preserves the show's habit of moving from plot detail to moral and spiritual meaning. The hosts do not rush to flatten the movies into sermon illustrations. Instead, they ask what each one reveals about fear, power, and human experience. The result is a year-end conversation that is part film criticism and part reflective theology. It sounds like people who care about movies enough to let them trouble the surface. The banter stays accessible. The analysis stays grounded. The faith angle remains present without becoming heavy-handed. By the end, the episode has made a case for taking 2024's movies seriously on their own terms and then asking what they might mean for faith. It is a fitting capstone to the series. It closes with the same curiosity it begins with.

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A reflective best-of-2024 movie roundtable that links standout films to faith, bodies, and pressure.

Josh Larson closes Think Christian's best of 2024 run with Rosalyn Hernandez and J.R. Forasteros in a conversation that keeps returning to how movies press on faith and ordinary life.

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