and the nominees are...

✦✦✦✦✦

• parasite
• little women
• joker
• avengers: endgame
• in the absence

✦✦✦✦½✧

• toy story 4

✦✦✦✦✧

• knives out
• the irishman
• frozen II
• klaus
• 1917
• hair love
• a sister
• the edge of democracy

✦✦✦½✧✧

• once upon a time... in hollywood
• how to train your dragon: the hidden world
• saria
• nefta football club
• sister
• harriet

✦✦✦✧✧

• i lost my body
• the two popes
• ford v ferrari
• kitbull
• daughter
• memorable
• american factory
• the lighthouse

✦✦½✧✧✧

• maleficent: mistress of evil
• missing link
• brotherhood

✦✦✧✧✧

• jojo rabbit
• the lion king
• marriage story
• bombshell
• the neighbors' window
• life overtakes me

didn't watch

• ad astra
• star wars: the rise of skywalker
• rocketman
• pain and glory
• a beautiful day in the neighborhood
• richard jewell
• the cave
• honeyland
• for sama
• learning to skateboard in a warzone (if you're a girl)
• st. louis superman
• walk run cha-cha
• corpus christi
• les misérables
• breakthrough