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JON NICCUM
PUBLICATION(S)
• County Cable
• Lawrence Journal-World
• Lawrence.com
• Pitch.com

BIOGRAPHY
For the last three years I've been the Entertainment Editor at the Lawrence Journal-World. Prior to that I was music/film editor at Kansas City's PitchWeekly for seven years.
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CONTACT INFO
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STATS
Total Reviews: 282
Total QuickRatings: 479

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle

OTHER INFO
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• Location: Lawrence, KS


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5  Breaking the Waves
4/4  Fahrenheit 9/11
3.5/4  Kill Bill Vol. 1
4/5  Master of the Flying Guillotine
3/4  Mystic River
2.5/4  Beyond Borders
3/5  The Craft
2/4  Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat
1.5/4  Gothika
1/4  The Matrix Revolutions
0/4  Alexander
3.5  I, Robot
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4  King Kong
4/4  A History of Violence
4/4  Million Dollar Baby
5/5  The Lavender Hill Mob
5/5  Breaking the Waves
4/4  The Incredibles
4/4  Spider-Man 2
4/4  Fahrenheit 9/11
4/4  Chicago
4/4  American Movie
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/4  Alexander
0.5/4  Gigli
1/4  What the Bleep Do We Know?
1/4  The Matrix Revolutions
1/4  National Security
1/4  Collateral Damage
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

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2.5/4
 
" a mildly engrossing lecture on the pitfalls of fame -- drug abuse, failed marriages and egos run rampant -- all set to the melismatic bellowing of semi-catchy show tunes." -- County Cable
Posted Feb 2, 2007
 
Dreamgirls (2006)78%
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1.5/4
 
" It's good advice to never pick up strangers. It's equally sound advice to never go see a remake of an unremarkable '80s horror flick that is produced by Michael Bay and directed by a filmmaker best known for crafting Britney Spears videos." -- County Cable
Posted Jan 26, 2007
 
The Hitcher (2007)19%
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2/4
 
" 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." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Jul 21, 2006
 
Lady in the Water (2006)24%
 N/A  
" Brian O'Halloran: 'It speaks to a more broad audience than to one who wants to hear us lace into a couple customers and play hockey on the roof.'" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Jul 14, 2006
 
Clerks II (2006)63%
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2/4
 
" It simply fades into Wilson's growing résumé of watchable but unremarkable comedies." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Jul 14, 2006
 
You, Me and Dupree (2006)22%
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2.5/4
 
" At more than two-and-a-half hours, this second installment veers toward overkill" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Jul 7, 2006
 
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)54%
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3/4
 
" Come February, it might be very fashionable to present Streep with another Oscar" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Jun 30, 2006
 
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)76%
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2.5/4
 
" It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a downer." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Jun 28, 2006
 
Superman Returns (2006)77%
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3/4
 
" the documentary is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Jun 23, 2006
 
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)93%
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2/4
 
" What is least appealing about the Hesses is the sense that they are always laughing 'at' rather than 'with' their characters" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Jun 16, 2006
 
Nacho Libre (2006)39%
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2/4
 
" Apparently, anthropomorphized machines are a whole lot less fun than anthropomorphized fish, insects, toys or monsters. Remember last year's Robots? Yeah, me neither" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Jun 9, 2006
 
Cars (2006)75%
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2.5/4
 
" 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." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Jun 2, 2006
 
The Break-Up (2006)34%
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2.5/4
 
" 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." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted May 26, 2006
 
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)56%
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2/4
 
" 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." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted May 19, 2006
 
The Da Vinci Code (2006)25%
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2/4
 
" It's the cinematic equivalent of a Carnival Cruise" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted May 12, 2006
 
Poseidon (2006)33%
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3.5/4
 
" The movie is why popcorn was invented." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted May 5, 2006
 
Mission: Impossible III (2006)70%
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3.5/4
 
" The very act of depicting the events with such detached frankness makes for a far more gripping experience than any cinematic embellishments might provide." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted May 1, 2006
 
United 93 (2006)91%
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2.5/4
 
" 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." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Apr 21, 2006
 
American Dreamz (2006)41%
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3/4
 
" a comedy both as dark as a black lung and as illuminating as a stadium full of flicked lighters." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Apr 14, 2006
 
Thank You For Smoking (2006)86%
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3/4
 
" What at first appears to be heading into Quentin Tarantino or Guy Ritchie turf steadily finds its own violent voice" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Apr 7, 2006
 
Lucky # Slevin (2006)51%
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1.5/4
 
" 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." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Mar 31, 2006
 
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)7%
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2.5/4
 
" 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." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Mar 17, 2006
 
V For Vendetta (2005)73%
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2.5/4
 
" 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." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Mar 10, 2006
 
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)49%
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2/4
 
" the quieter scenes far outweigh the noisier ones" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Mar 3, 2006
 
16 Blocks (2006)56%
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3/4
 
" For a picture so fetishistically obsessed with death, Running Scared is vibrantly alive." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Feb 24, 2006
 
Running Scared (2006)40%
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2.5/4
 
" an irreverent, imaginative and often just plain weird spin on the classic fairy tale" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Feb 17, 2006
 
Hoodwinked (2006)48%
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2/4
 
" once the fistfights, car chases and stray explosions begin to mount, the movie veers into exponentially dumb overkill." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Feb 10, 2006
 
Firewall (2006)19%
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3/4
 
" 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." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Feb 3, 2006
 
Capote (2005)91%
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2.5/4
 
" This generally engrossing Christian parable is the type of film that conservatives will overpraise and liberals will overcriticize." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Jan 20, 2006
 
End of the Spear (2006)43%
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2.5/4
 
" somehow the conviction that Queen Latifah brings to the project makes some of the film's dopier choices easier to forgive." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Jan 13, 2006
 
Last Holiday (2006)55%
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2/4
 
" a monotonous and often inadvertently campy romance that rivals The Hours as the most overrated movie of the decade" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Jan 6, 2006
 
Brokeback Mountain (2005)86%
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2.5/4
 
" The 'zany' performances are like a well-oiled machine, and, consequently, much of the movie comes across as mechanical." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Dec 27, 2005
 
The Producers (2005)51%
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3/4
 
" 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." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Dec 23, 2005
 
Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)94%
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4/4
 
" The sight of the mighty ape taking futile swipes at bullet-spitting biplanes from the top of the Empire State Building remains one of the most awe-inspiring and utterly sad images in movie history." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Dec 14, 2005
 
King Kong (2005)84%
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3/4
 
" The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe fares much better in its smaller, quieter moments that test the mettle and morality of its young heroes" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Dec 9, 2005
 
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)75%
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3/4
 
" The movie is so relentlessly impulsive that it becomes easier if the audience just cries 'uncle' to its stylistic arm twisting." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Dec 2, 2005
 
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005)83%
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1.5/4
 
" 'Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes.' These opening lyrical lines of Rent also seem to describe how long it takes for a viewer to sit through the movie." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Nov 24, 2005
 
Rent (2005)48%
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3/4
 
" Although the plot of this installment explores 'three unforgivable curses,' the sequel avoids the 'curse of the fourth film,' proving there is still a heap of charm left in this young wizard's tale." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Nov 18, 2005
 
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)89%
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3/4
 
" What makes the fantasy elements seem particularly colorful is that the film immediately grounds the characters in reality." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Nov 11, 2005
 
Zathura (2005)76%
 N/A  
" Steve Balderson: "My 20s were spent trying to conceive and make this movie."" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Nov 4, 2005
 
Firecracker (2004)n/a
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2.5/4
 
" Gyllenhaal gives his strongest performance yet, perfectly balancing the frat-like bravado and utter cluelessness of young guys riding out their terms in the military" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Nov 4, 2005
 
Jarhead (2005)61%
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2.5/4
 
" Audiences who can stomach Cage’s lingering malaise might appreciate an eccentric drama with a subtle command of dark humor" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Oct 28, 2005
 
The Weather Man (2005)58%
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2/4
 
" It’s possible there’s not a single moment in the movie — in terms of dialogue, plot or design — that can’t be directly attributed to another flick." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Oct 21, 2005
 
Doom (2005)20%
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2/4
 
" The movie comes across like the director died about two-thirds of the way through filming and a loony relative stepped in to finish the project." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Oct 14, 2005
 
Elizabethtown (2005)28%
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3.5/4
 
" Park finds a way to turn very peculiar plots into easy-to-digest adventures" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Oct 7, 2005
 
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)95%
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4/4
 
" It’s the director’s most fully realized work and a masterstroke of violent cinema." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Sep 30, 2005
 
A History of Violence (2005)87%
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3/4
 
" Charming and amoral, intense and indifferent, Cage continues to deliver the kind of dominating performance that elevated quirky efforts such as Adaptation." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Sep 16, 2005
 
Lord of War (2005)61%
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3/4
 
" When it’s scary, it’s extra scary. Nails-in-the-armrest scary." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Sep 9, 2005
 
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)45%
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2/4
 
" Despite occupying nearly every scene, Bill Murray is a virtual non-presence in Jim Jarmusch’s latest puzzler." -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Sep 2, 2005
 
Broken Flowers (2005)86%
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2/4
 
" too generic to offer many scares" -- Lawrence Journal-World
Posted Aug 26, 2005
 
The Cave (2005)13%

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