2021 theatrical movies (according to the Academy Awards’ Covid-askew eligibility calendar this year) worth seeing:

• Shiva Baby
• Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2021: Documentary
• Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2021: Animation
• Come True
• Test Pattern

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2020

• The Trip to Greece
• Sorry We Missed You
• The Whistlers
• Saint Frances
• Corpus Christi
• Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
• Young Ahmed
• Olympic Dreams
• The Cordillera of Dreams
• Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Documentaries
• Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Live Action
• The Traitor
• The Assistant
• Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Animated
• Zombi Child
• VHYes
• Citizen K
• Les Misérables
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Ip Man 4: The Finale
• Little Women
• Uncut Gems
• 1917
• Cats
• Invisible Life
• The Disappearance of My Mother
• 6 Underground
• Midnight Family
• 63 Up
• Knives Out
• Varda by Agnès
• Queen & Slim
• The Two Popes
• Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
• Dark Water
• The Report
• Honey Boy
• The Irishman
• Mickey and the Bear
• The Good Liar
• The Hottest August
• The Kingmaker
• Marriage Story
• The Apollo
• Synonyms
• Parasite
• The Lighthouse
• Pain and Glory
• Little Monsters
• The Laundromat
• Loro
• Ad Astra
• The Golden Glove
• América
• Midnight Traveler 
• Chained for Life
• Adam
• End of the Century
• Cold Case Hammarskjöld
• American Factory
• Los Reyes
• The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
• The Nightingale
• For Sama
• Mike Wallace is Here
• Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
• At War
• I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
• The Farewell
• Luz
• Rojo
• The Art of Self-Defense
• Midsommar
• Sea of Shadows