Peter Travers is an American film critic, who has written for, in turn, People and Rolling Stone. Travers also hosts a celebrity interview show called Popcorn on ABC News Now and ABCNews.com.
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Career
Prior to writing for Rolling Stone, Travers was a film critic for People from 1984–1988. He is known for his basic writing style that eschews more sophisticated analysis for an easy-to-read and often very opinionated form. According to efilmcritic.com, Travers is the nation's most blurbed film critic. Some of the contemporary directors he is most receptive to based on ratings and placement in top ten lists include Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton, Clint Eastwood, Joel and Ethan Coen, and Ang Lee. He has also shown a great deal of disdain for certain directors, most notably Michael Bay and his films.
Reviews
In 2002, Travers began using a star-rating. Some of the films that received his top rating (four-stars) are Letters from Iwo Jima, King Kong, City of God, United 93, Brokeback Mountain, Lost in Translation, Far From Heaven, Kill Bill, Babel, Syriana, Volver, Borat, Atonement, There Will Be Blood, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, WALL-E, Up, and Where The Wild Things Are.
On the opposite end of the rating spectrum, he has given his lowest rating of 'zero-stars' to Bad Boys 2, The Dukes of Hazzard, Fool's Gold, Norbit, Untraceable, Bride Wars, The Informers, Obsessed, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and All About Steve.
Number Ones from Travers’ Top Tens
- 1989: Do the Right Thing
- Best Film of the '80s: Blue Velvet
- 1990: Goodfellas
- 1991: The Silence of the Lambs
- 1992: The Player
- 1993: Short Cuts
- 1994: Pulp Fiction
- 1995: Get Shorty
- 1996: The People vs. Larry Flynt
- 1997: Titanic
- 1998: The Truman Show
- 1999: American Beauty
- 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Almost Famous
- 2001: Memento (Indiewood List) and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Hollywood List)
- 2002: Gangs of New York
- 2003: Mystic River
- 2004: Sideways
- 2005: A History of Violence
- 2006: The Departed
- 2007: No Country for Old Men
- 2008: Milk
- Best Film of the '00s: There Will Be Blood
External links
- http://www.rottentomatoes.com/author-2726/
- http://www.nyfilmcritics.com/critics.htm
- http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Movies/
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