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Rick Romancito

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Hamnet (2025) 86% A EDIT “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.” – The Taos News Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 51% C EDIT “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.” – The Taos News Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% D EDIT “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. ” – The Taos News Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% C EDIT “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. ” – The Taos News Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% C+ EDIT “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.” – The Taos News Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% B+ EDIT “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.” – The Taos News Dec 13, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% A EDIT “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.” – The Taos News Nov 27, 2025 Full Review Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) 95% A- EDIT “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. ” – The Taos News Nov 21, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% B EDIT “... 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.” – The Taos News Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% B+ EDIT “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.” – The Taos News Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Pets on a Train (2025) C EDIT “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.” – The Taos News Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% B+ EDIT “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.” – The Taos News Oct 24, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% B+ EDIT “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.” – The Taos News Oct 17, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% B+ EDIT “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.” – The Taos News Oct 11, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% C- EDIT “I wouldn’t start clearing a spot on the shelf for an Oscar just yet.” – The Taos News Oct 3, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% B+ EDIT “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.”” – The Taos News Sep 27, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% C- EDIT “... 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.” – The Taos News Sep 19, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% B+ EDIT “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.” – The Taos News Sep 12, 2025 Full Review The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) 58% B+ EDIT “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.” – The Taos News Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Jaws (1975) 97% A+ EDIT “In a filmed intro, Spielberg himself jokes, “we’re gonna need a bigger screen.”” – The Taos News Aug 29, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% C EDIT “... 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” – The Taos News Aug 23, 2025 Full Review Nobody 2 (2025) 76% B+ EDIT “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 ...” – The Taos News Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% A- EDIT “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.” – The Taos News Aug 8, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% C- EDIT “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.” – The Taos News Aug 1, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% A- EDIT “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. ” – The Taos News Jul 25, 2025 Full Review
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