Josh Mata

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"Nice hair!" - every old person I've ever met

Favorite films

  • It's Such a Beautiful Day
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Waves
  • The Tree of Life

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  • True Lies

    ★★★½

  • Mystery Train

    ★★★★

  • Hundreds of Beavers

    ★★★★★

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

    ★★★★

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  • In Bruges

    In Bruges

    ★★★★★

    This is like Hot Fuzz for people who hate themselves.

  • Scarface

    Scarface

    ★★★★★

    It's easy to get caught up in the iconic status of Scarface and write off its craftsmanship in favor of being a college dorm-room classic, only appealing to young men seeking something ultra-violent and morally ambiguous. Does it deliver on that? Of course it does, it's Scarface. It's brash and it's brutal and profane and doesn't care what anybody thinks about it. And at this point It's so embedded in pop-culture and even hip-hop culture that everybody has done the…

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  • True Lies

    True Lies

    ★★★½

    I've said it once on this app and I'll say it again, I'm not a James Cameron guy. I respect what he does, he knows how to put together a big budget action movie but it's not just my thing. Typically, I like my action movies to either fully commit to gritty realism or an expressive style and he typically falls into a very safe middle ground (with the exception of T2 and Aliens).

    That's not to say what he…

  • Mystery Train

    Mystery Train

    ★★★★

    "Let's go walk around" - every Jim Jarmusch character in the history of cinema.

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  • The Prince of Egypt

    The Prince of Egypt

    ★★★★½

    One of the most visually striking films ever made, let alone animated I mean Jeeeeesus

    It’s like the closest thing American cinema has to a Ghibli film and I got chills multiple times all over my body.

  • The Green Knight

    The Green Knight

    ★★★★½

    Wow, man. Fantasy is a genre that’s been around for literally forever, but I honestly can’t remember the last time I watched a fantasy movie that felt as otherworldly as this one. Every single frame is filled to the brim with strange, dreamlike imagery that had me in a trance and I found myself glued to the screen in anticipation waiting for the next scene because I knew I was gonna be shown something I hadn’t seen before.

    It honestly…