Our “Introvert’s Guide to the Good Life” series has been all about helping you find ways to enrich and entertain your perhaps-more-than-usual indoors-based life.

Today, we check in with NPR film critic Bob Mondello about the best movies to watch right now. (Hint: he does not double down on pandemic movies like Contagion.)

And of course, we’ll get some movie recommendations from listeners, too!

Here are a few of the films mentioned in this week’s episode (with links to their trailers on YouTube):

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• The General (1926)

• Some Like It Hot (1959)

• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

• Tootsie (1989)

• Spirited Away (2002)

• Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

• Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)