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Lawrence Journal-World

Lawrence Journal-World is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Dan Lybarger, Jon Niccum.

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4/5
(undefined) Jon Niccum Fine TV production, marked by an exceptional first episode
Posted Feb 21, 2021  Edit critic review
2/5
The Fan (1981) Jon Niccum
Posted Jan 25, 2007  Edit critic review
3/5
Three Seasons (1999) Jon Niccum
Posted Jan 25, 2007  Edit critic review
5/5
Airplane! (1980) Jon Niccum
Posted Jan 25, 2007  Edit critic review
3/5
Innerspace (1987) Jon Niccum
Posted Jan 25, 2007  Edit critic review
3/5
She's So Lovely (1997) Jon Niccum
Posted Jan 25, 2007  Edit critic review
2/4
Lady in the Water (2006) Jon Niccum Lady in the Water appears to be a creepy fairy tale, but it's really a psychological thriller. Trouble is, the psychology involves the mindset of its writer-director.
Posted Jul 21, 2006  Edit critic review
2/4
You, Me and Dupree (2006) Jon Niccum It simply fades into Wilson's growing résumé of watchable but unremarkable comedies.
Posted Jul 14, 2006  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) Jon Niccum At more than two-and-a-half hours, this second installment veers toward overkill
Posted Jul 07, 2006  Edit critic review
3/4
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) Jon Niccum Come February, it might be very fashionable to present Streep with another Oscar
Posted Jun 30, 2006  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Superman Returns (2006) Jon Niccum It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a downer.
Posted Jun 28, 2006  Edit critic review
3/4
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Jon Niccum the documentary is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.
Posted Jun 23, 2006  Edit critic review
2/4
Nacho Libre (2006) Jon Niccum What is least appealing about the Hesses is the sense that they are always laughing 'at' rather than 'with' their characters
Posted Jun 16, 2006  Edit critic review
2/4
Cars (2006) Jon Niccum Apparently, anthropomorphized machines are a whole lot less fun than anthropomorphized fish, insects, toys or monsters. Remember last year's Robots? Yeah, me neither
Posted Jun 09, 2006  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Break-Up (2006) Jon Niccum It's at least trying to stay anchored in the real world, where cute couples don't always make up and walk hand-in-hand into the sunset.
Posted Jun 02, 2006  Edit critic review
2.5/4
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Jon Niccum The main downfall of X-Men: The Last Stand is also its biggest guilty pleasure: watching just how many mutant baddies they can throw on the screen.
Posted May 26, 2006  Edit critic review
2/4
The Da Vinci Code (2006) Jon Niccum Ideas that are genuinely challenging to people's beliefs don't come from sources like Ron Howard. His movie is a professional, workmanlike effort -- a passable potboiler and not much more.
Posted May 19, 2006  Edit critic review
2/4
Poseidon (2006) Jon Niccum It's the cinematic equivalent of a Carnival Cruise
Posted May 12, 2006  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Mission: Impossible III (2006) Jon Niccum The movie is why popcorn was invented.
Posted May 05, 2006  Edit critic review
3.5/4
United 93 (2006) Jon Niccum The very act of depicting the events with such detached frankness makes for a far more gripping experience than any cinematic embellishments might provide.
Posted May 01, 2006  Edit critic review
2.5/4
American Dreamz (2006) Jon Niccum The film is tailor-made for the vast audience that can't wait to watch Fox's Idol each week while still intellectually grasping what a glossy hunk of junk it is.
Posted Apr 21, 2006  Edit critic review
3/4
Thank You for Smoking (2005) Jon Niccum a comedy both as dark as a black lung and as illuminating as a stadium full of flicked lighters.
Posted Apr 14, 2006  Edit critic review
3/4
Lucky Number Slevin (2006) Jon Niccum What at first appears to be heading into Quentin Tarantino or Guy Ritchie turf steadily finds its own violent voice
Posted Apr 07, 2006  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) Jon Niccum Stone's every line of dialogue, every gesture, every hussy lip smack screams 'I'm too sexy for this movie.' And it's often hilarious.
Posted Mar 31, 2006  Edit critic review
2.5/4
V for Vendetta (2005) Jon Niccum V for Vendetta is a confounding exercise that has no trouble getting people to think, but it's far less successful at getting them to feel.
Posted Mar 17, 2006  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Hills Have Eyes (2006) Jon Niccum So visceral is the carnage and so believable are the victims' reactions to it that it's impossible not to get caught up in the story.
Posted Mar 10, 2006  Edit critic review
2/4
16 Blocks (2006) Jon Niccum the quieter scenes far outweigh the noisier ones
Posted Mar 03, 2006  Edit critic review
3/4
Running Scared (2006) Jon Niccum For a picture so fetishistically obsessed with death, Running Scared is vibrantly alive.
Posted Feb 24, 2006  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Hoodwinked! (2005) Jon Niccum an irreverent, imaginative and often just plain weird spin on the classic fairy tale
Posted Feb 17, 2006  Edit critic review
2/4
Firewall (2006) Jon Niccum once the fistfights, car chases and stray explosions begin to mount, the movie veers into exponentially dumb overkill.
Posted Feb 10, 2006  Edit critic review
3/4
Capote (2005) Jon Niccum it does a capable job of capturing a time and place, bringing to life several unforgettable personalities and illustrating the moral self-loathing of a writer whose real-life subject must die before he has a decent ending to his book.
Posted Feb 03, 2006  Edit critic review
3/5
S.O.B. (1981) Jon Niccum
Posted Jan 20, 2006  Edit critic review
4/5
Sleepers (1996) Jon Niccum Disturbing and powerful
Posted Jan 20, 2006  Edit critic review
5/5
The Parallax View (1974) Jon Niccum Among the top paranoid thrillers of the 1970s
Posted Jan 20, 2006  Edit critic review
2/5
Backdraft (1991) Jon Niccum
Posted Jan 20, 2006  Edit critic review
4/5
Live and Let Die (1973) Jon Niccum
Posted Jan 20, 2006  Edit critic review
1/5
Hard Target (1993) Jon Niccum Hysterically inept attempt at action filmmaking
Posted Jan 20, 2006  Edit critic review
3/5
Death Race 2000 (1975) Jon Niccum
Posted Jan 20, 2006  Edit critic review
3/5
Benny & Joon (1993) Jon Niccum
Posted Jan 20, 2006  Edit critic review
3/5
Eating Raoul (1982) Jon Niccum
Posted Jan 20, 2006  Edit critic review
2.5/4
End of the Spear (2006) Jon Niccum This generally engrossing Christian parable is the type of film that conservatives will overpraise and liberals will overcriticize.
Posted Jan 20, 2006  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Last Holiday (2006) Jon Niccum somehow the conviction that Queen Latifah brings to the project makes some of the film's dopier choices easier to forgive.
Posted Jan 13, 2006  Edit critic review
2/4
Brokeback Mountain (2005) Jon Niccum a monotonous and often inadvertently campy romance that rivals The Hours as the most overrated movie of the decade
Posted Jan 06, 2006  Edit critic review
4/5
Brother's Keeper (1992) Jon Niccum
Posted Dec 27, 2005  Edit critic review
1/5
In Love and War (1996) Jon Niccum Boring and artificial
Posted Dec 27, 2005  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Producers (2005) Jon Niccum The 'zany' performances are like a well-oiled machine, and, consequently, much of the movie comes across as mechanical.
Posted Dec 27, 2005  Edit critic review
3/4
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) Jon Niccum When Murrow cautions viewers they should 'not be driven by fear into an age of unreason,' the film seems more culturally relevant than anything playing at the multiplex.
Posted Dec 23, 2005  Edit critic review
1/5
The Doors (1991) Jon Niccum Tedious and self-important
Posted Dec 14, 2005  Edit critic review
4/5
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) Jon Niccum
Posted Dec 14, 2005  Edit critic review
3/5
Tightrope (1984) Jon Niccum
Posted Dec 14, 2005  Edit critic review
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