Josh Bates

Josh Bates

Favorite films

  • Her
  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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  • Avatar: The Way of Water

    ★★

  • Pokémon: The First Movie

  • Superbad

  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

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  • Avatar: The Way of Water

    Avatar: The Way of Water

    ★★

    Truly embarrassing it took James Cameron 13 years to make this movie and all he came up with was a mind-numbingly stupid version the original. This bloated movie dragged on and made me audibly groan multiple times over it's unwelcomed 3hr runtime. Some will say this movie is visually stunning, and it is, but it isn't "beyond anything we've seen before" and even if it was, it wouldn't be enough to hide a movie that otherwise lacks all creativity and originality.

  • F9

    F9

    ★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  • Lost Bayou

    Lost Bayou

    ★★★★★

    I saw this film at the Magnolia Film Festival in 2020 (pre-pandemic), and was absolutely blow away. It was the first film festival I had ever attended and most films leading up to it were great, but they all either clearly suffered from being low budget or left me begging for more. This came on as the feature of the second night and fulfilled every hole the other movies were not able to.

    Since it's been a while, I can't…

  • The Godfather

    The Godfather

    ★★★★

    Going into the film, I knew there was no way it was ever going to live up to the hype. It's THE GODFATHER, the movie everyone talks about and swears is the best piece of cinema ever, but I knew I wouldn't agree. However, I was surprised by how close it did come to those standards and proved itself to be a great film in a very different way than I thought it would.

    Like a lot of Coppola's work,…