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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Great 2021 Movies You May Have Missed And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

We cover a lot of movies here on Pop Culture Happy Hour, but we can't come close to hitting every great film. Today, we're inviting some of our favorite film critics to share the movies they loved from 2021 — the ones that got past us the first time, but should definitely get added to your queue.

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0:00.0

We cover a lot of movies here on Pop Culture Happy Hour, but we can't come close to getting

0:09.6

to everything.

0:10.8

So sometimes we like to take a pause and just pick up some things that got past us the

0:14.2

first time and make sure to put them on your radar.

0:17.6

Today, we invited some of our favorite film critic panelists to share some of the 2021

0:22.6

movies that you should definitely look out for.

0:25.4

I'm Linda Holmes and today we're making recommendations for great 2021 movies we missed

0:29.9

on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

0:32.7

Joining me today is film critic Bob Mandello.

0:35.1

Hello Bob, welcome back.

0:36.7

It's good to be here.

0:37.8

And also here is writer, comedian and co-host of the Bad Romance podcast, Jordan Searle's

0:43.6

Hi, Jordan.

0:44.6

Happy to be back.

0:45.6

Good to have you.

0:47.0

So this is a simple episode.

0:48.4

We're talking about movies we missed and by we, I mean the podcast in 2021.

0:53.6

Each of us is going to offer you one film recommendation that didn't get its own Pop

0:57.8

Culture Happy Hour episode and I want to start with Bob.

1:00.9

Oh boy.

1:02.4

First of 2022.

1:03.4

I actually put this one on my 10 best list.

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