This season, several potentially fascinating 3-D movies have lined up — fascinating not to fans of superheroes or blockbusters, but to adults. There’s the sincere and grim docudrama “Everest”; Robert Zemeckis’s “The Walk,” the Oscar-ready chronicle of the high-wire daredevil Philippe Petit; and “The Martian,” Ridley Scott’s space procedural. In December, we’ll see Wim Wenders’s psychological drama “Every Thing Will Be Fine.” Most provocative of all, there’s Gaspar Noé’s “Love,” a 3-D hard-core porn opus that is notorious for eliciting howling pans at Cannes. So, of course, it needs to be seen.

But I can’t see any of them. Not, at least, in 3-D.

Probably the nation’s only stereoblind film critic (for The Village Voice and Sight & Sound, among others), I was born 100 percent cross-eyed and have now, thanks to eye-muscle operations first at 18 months old and then at 6 years old, perfect vision in one eye and negligible vision in the other. The two eyes do not synch up to produce a single three-dimensional image — stereopsis — and never have, a condition called strabismus. My impression is that I see some version of three-dimensionality in day-to-day life, but I’ve been told by experts that I actually don’t. Binoculars, View-Masters and “magic eye” posters have never worked for me, and I’ve always had trouble playing sports that require keen depth perception and hand-eye coordination, like tennis. If I were to, say, lose my left eye in a bar fight, I wouldn’t miss it terribly, and might prefer the rakish Raoul Walsh eye patch.

I have never successfully seen a 3-D film in the mode it was intended, and I’m not alone. Depending on the source, it’s estimated that somewhere between 292 million and 730 million people have limited or no stereo-acuity and cannot process three-dimensional cinema. A great many more can do so only with effort and strain. We’re an overlooked minority, many times greater than the percentage of viewers who need wheelchair ramps to access a movie theater, which all theaters are legally required to have.

“You don’t have stereopsis because you never developed it,” Sara Shippman, director of orthoptics for the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai Hospital, told me. “In order to develop stereopsis, the eyes need to be aligned at an early age, generally before age 2, and have roughly equal vision. Unless the connections in the brain develop at this age, there is no way to force them to develop at a later age. Fusion, the ability to use the image from both eyes together in an integrated image, is a brain function, not an eye function.”