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The Taos News is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Rick Romancito.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
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Hamnet (2025) Rick Romancito Chloé Zhao (of "Eternals" and "Nomadland" fame) has taken Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 historical fiction novel and fleshed it out as a story with great nuance, unexpected metaphor and heartbreaking tragedy.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
C
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Rick Romancito What made the first movie compelling was the drama between John and his wife Allison (Baccarin). Their domestic issues added a brilliant bit of drama as John tries to repair his relationship, along with focusing on the complicated problem-solving.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
D
Primate (2025) Rick Romancito Roberts’ biggest error is to use highly unconvincing prosthetics for Ben (played by physical actor Miguel Torres Umba) that make the cast of the original "Planet of the Apes" look like the real deal.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
C
Marty Supreme (2025) Rick Romancito Marty’s a young man who moves at breakneck speed to get what he needs. One might immediately think he’s pharmaceutically-fueled, but he’s really hyped up on achieving near impossible but near useless goals.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Rick Romancito It is the absolute worst when the antagonist, Quaritch (Stephen Lang), is depicted using the kind of offensive speech used to describe Native Americans. This is surprising since the action in the movie supposedly takes place in the year 2154.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Rick Romancito While Johnson fashions a very entertaining film, one cannot help but fault him for his under-use of some cast members. Still, for a big production Netflix movie, this is certainly worth the time.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Zootopia 2 (2025) Rick Romancito They show how a place like Zootopia, where every creature has a place to live and work and play together, offers a look at how humans have a lot to learn.
Posted Nov 27, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) Rick Romancito Like the first movie, director Helander opts for a pure by-the-numbers action scenario reminiscent of spaghetti western-style pacing and Tarantino-esque sudden bloody action with loads of gore and little dialogue.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
B
The Running Man (2025) Rick Romancito ... one supposes it’s Stephen King’s attempt to put in his two cents about just who controls who amid the chaos of our world.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Nuremberg (2025) Rick Romancito While it brings many insights to light about Göring and the other Nazi officers on trial, there is an unshakeable hint that this feels more like a two-and-a-half hour long made-for-Netflix movie.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Pets on a Train (2025) Rick Romancito While the movie has some sweet moments and funny bits, much of the plot concocted by directors Benoit Daffis and Jean-Christian Tassy is peppered with some scary action that might be frightening for some smaller kids in the audience.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Rick Romancito This movie may prove a bit disappointing to devotees of “The Boss” for its focus on the artist’s inner struggles and less on his music, but for someone as vivid as he is both cannot exist without the other.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
After the Hunt (2025) Rick Romancito Guadagnino has crafted a film that sometimes feels like old school French or Italian cinema, riddled with inexplicable symbols, mysterious shots of hands, sudden editing choices and oddball sound effects.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
TRON: Ares (2025) Rick Romancito With each film, the tech has become more and more sophisticated and infinitely more watchable. This means the story gets whittled down to quick cuts and flashy graphics.
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
The Smashing Machine (2025) Rick Romancito I wouldn’t start clearing a spot on the shelf for an Oscar just yet.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
One Battle After Another (2025) Rick Romancito The worse eventually happens right about the time the movie starts to develop an interesting landscape of political and social commentary, surprisingly dredged up by a movie Bob is watching called “The Battle of Algiers.”
Posted Sep 27, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Rick Romancito ... at no point do they question the nature of these doorways or why the GPS leads them to each. They just are out there, providing a kind of surreal method of therapy to understand how they came to be the way they are.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
The Long Walk (2025) Rick Romancito The movie is a dark tale of friendships, developed as a coping mechanism at first, but eventually transformed into a sad lifeline. Even the boys who start out as adversaries begin to reach out to one another.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) Rick Romancito Watching the interplay between Farmiga and Wilson over the years has made this an emotional journey worth watching. Unfortunately, the movie suffers from lighting that is terribly murky and unimaginative. That alone is the most horrifying part.
Posted Sep 06, 2025  Edit critic review
A+
Jaws (1975) Rick Romancito In a filmed intro, Spielberg himself jokes, “we’re gonna need a bigger screen.”
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
C
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Rick Romancito ... one may find themselves wondering if all this self-indulgent art school style fantasy is worth it in a tale of a rich businessman named Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro) and his plan to hold onto his fortune
Posted Aug 23, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Nobody 2 (2025) Rick Romancito This movie has all the same elements that made the first movie so successful: cool music on the soundtrack, ultra-violent fight sequences, and a hero that does everything he can to keep his family safe. Unfortunately, it may be a little too familiar ...
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Weapons (2025) Rick Romancito In writer-director Zach Cregger’s new feature, “Weapons,” that sense of terror is amplified by 17. That’s the number of elementary school children in teacher Justine Gandy’s (Julia Garner) classroom that fails to show up one day.
Posted Aug 08, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
The Naked Gun (2025) Rick Romancito This movie can be very funny, but don’t expect any of the humor to run deeper than a side-take when former “Naked Gun” co-star O.J. Simpson’s name is used. So, enjoy it for what it is.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Rick Romancito The movie, thank goodness, also isn’t bogged down with yet another origin story, nor does it wrap itself in existential angst over the challenges of being a super hero.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Eddington (2025) Rick Romancito Hitting the nail on the head for Aster to come up with a movie about a disease that changed the world takes quite a few whacks before the ultimate cinematic vision comes into view. And, when it does, I would bet a lot of people won’t like it.
Posted Jul 18, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Superman (2025) Rick Romancito Gunn’s snarky slightly cynical approach drops the audience into a tale that feels like it’s already been unfolding for a while and that catching up might also mean diving into a warehouse of back issues to figure out who’s who.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Rick Romancito As in the previous movies, the typical human trait of avarice rears its ugly head and soon people are running through the jungle screaming and yelling for help with something baring gigantic teeth close behind.
Posted Jul 06, 2025  Edit critic review
C
F1 The Movie (2025) Rick Romancito Of course, sparks fly between the old guy and the young upstart in between spectacular racing sequences set on tracks all over the world.
Posted Jun 28, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
28 Years Later (2025) Rick Romancito Director Danny Boyle actually manages to create a heartfelt, emotional, tear-inducing scene right in the middle of extremely horrific circumstances. That’s a bit of voodoo that really is surprising.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Rick Romancito As the character Astrid says, “In case you forgot, our parents’ war is about to become ours.” Irony can sometimes come from the most surprising places.
Posted Jun 13, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Ballerina (2025) Rick Romancito “Ballerina” would probably do a nose dive into obscurity if it weren’t for the talents of Ana De Armas, who stands her ground as the lead better than most other actors around.
Posted Jun 06, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Bring Her Back (2025) Rick Romancito They go for the jugular as we learn that Laura is seriously deranged, despite the squeaky clean image she presents to authorities. In fact, starting with the film’s first frame we’re put on edge, piling one unbearable moment of suspense onto another.
Posted May 30, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Rick Romancito As Ethan says to one of the characters at one point, “You’re spending too much time on the internet.”
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) Rick Romancito In this latest film, [Tony] Todd appears to be seriously ill and not just because his role calls for it ... one has to wonder about whether this decision on the part of the directors was respectful or exploitative.
Posted May 17, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Clown in a Cornfield (2025) Rick Romancito While the shocks are expertly designed to get audiences’ hearts pumping, there’s enough humor to avoid it becoming uncomfortably relentless.
Posted May 09, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Thunderbolts* (2025) Rick Romancito A lot of what follows involves various discoveries about each character, some of which is rather sad and tragic, which makes their transformation into super-heroes an interesting journey for each.
Posted May 02, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
The Accountant 2 (2025) Rick Romancito The movie also has a bit of added timeliness, owing to real life issues involving the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and certain comments he recently made about the autism community.
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Sinners (2025) Rick Romancito Coogler shaped its core from a wild gumbo of blood, violence, racism, anger, magic and a belief in the divine wrapped in a twine of rough jute from old time, hard-core Mississippi blues.
Posted Apr 20, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Warfare (2025) Rick Romancito “Warfare” may stay with you long afterward, but it’s kind of cathartic in its own strange way, like something you have to see to believe, and having seen it, wish it never had to happen to anyone. Ever.
Posted Apr 11, 2025  Edit critic review
A+
The Conversation (1974) Rick Romancito What made “The Conversation” so remarkable was how it humanized the expert, a plain, unassuming, easy-to-forget man named Harry Caul, brilliantly portrayed by the late Gene Hackman.
Posted Apr 04, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Death of a Unicorn (2025) Rick Romancito From the angelic unicorn in the 1985 Ridley Scott film, “Legend,” to this week’s new release, “Death of a Unicorn,” we have seen examples of both ends of that scale and have really been impressed by only one.
Posted Mar 28, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Disney's Snow White (2025) Rick Romancito As for the Seven Dwarfs, let’s just say the filmmakers were between a rock and a hard place in how to approach this vital part of the story. No, the answer they came up with isn’t memorable, unless maybe a little nightmare or two is your cup of tea.
Posted Mar 21, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Novocaine (2025) Rick Romancito A lot of action comedies make their bank by injecting ultra-violence as a way to mix laughs with shocks, like “The Boys” TV series for instance. But, the gore and guffaws formula sometimes works and sometimes it doesn’t.
Posted Mar 14, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Mickey 17 (2025) Rick Romancito Pattinson is brilliant as the hapless Mickey, revealing an interesting range that requires minor but vivid acting choices to seamlessly identify which version of Mickey he is, Mickey 17 or Mickey 18.
Posted Mar 07, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Last Breath (2025) Rick Romancito Now, comes a new movie called “Last Breath,” and luckily it doesn’t feature monsters or sharks or diaphanous aliens, but it is a pretty good thriller with the requisite edge of your seat suspense.
Posted Feb 28, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Rick Romancito “Brave New World” includes some interesting political references but they are oblique enough to avoid certain volatile current affairs.
Posted Feb 15, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Love Hurts (2025) Rick Romancito While a film like this in better hands might set up these scenes displaying intention and even motivation, here they simply punctuate the script just for their shock value.
Posted Feb 07, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Dog Man (2025) Rick Romancito As long as you push way down in the back of your mind how “Dog Man” came to be, this is one of the happiest, strangest, delightful and fun animated movies to come along in a long time.
Posted Feb 01, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Flight Risk (2025) Rick Romancito What you have is a by-the-numbers thriller from director Mel Gibson who obviously sees the dramatic advantages of the set-up, but is confined by a formulaic script that feels more like a tepid 1950s action drama.
Posted Jan 25, 2025  Edit critic review
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