Peter Travers

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For 3,974 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Peter Travers' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Manchester by the Sea
Lowest review score: 0 Lost Souls
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,616 out of 3974
  2. Mixed: 754 out of 3974
  3. Negative: 604 out of 3974
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Travers
    American Fiction
    Cord Jefferson’s slashingly funny satire of Black literary stereotyping is one of the best and boldest American comedies in years with a dynamite performance by Jeffrey Wright that should put him up front in the Oscar sweeps. You won't look at race on screen in the same way again.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Fish Tank
    While you're remembering new high-impact names, add Arnold. In only her second film, after 2006's "Red Road," she keeps the screen filled to bursting with the beauty and raw terror of life.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    No
    No grabs you hard, no mercy, and keeps you riveted.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
    Best Worst Thing brims over with moments of humor and heartbreak that reflect the feeling of knowing "we're what's new." This movie is more than good, pal. It's indispensable.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Travers
    A Man Called Otto
    As always, Tom Hanks is in there pitching, but this time it’s mostly softballs. The cliched plot about a reformed grumpy old man is so obvious you can see it from outer space.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Hot Fuzz
    It's a blast.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Django Unchained
    Wake up, people. Tarantino lives to cross the line. Is Django Unchained too much? Damn straight. It wouldn't be Tarantino otherwise.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Pacific Rim
    What pulls us over the rough spots is the mind meld between del Toro the artist and the child inside him. They both want to astonish us. Geeks everywhere, salute.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Peter Travers
    The Hustle
    They say it’s all in the timing, especially when it comes to funny business. But in The Hustle everyone’s inner comedic clock is calamitously off. The setups are flat, the jokes don’t land and the actors don’t — or won’t — connect.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Us
    There are times when the film grips us with such hallucinatory terror that you may think it’s another of Adelaide’s PTSD-induced nightmares. Maybe it is. Or maybe it’s a ghastly reflection of the way we live now.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Big Short
    A hell of a hilarious time at the movies if you're up for laughs that stick in your throat.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Moana
    Sound plays as crucial a role as visuals in replicating an authentic culture to drive the storytelling.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Chris & Don. A Love Story
    You wind up caring deeply about the affair that began in the 1950s between American teenager Don Bachardy and three-decades-older Christopher Isherwood, the noted British author whose "Berlin Stories" inspired "Cabaret."
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Travers
    The King
    With the Bard’s words, Henry roused his soldiers to action: “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.” With this mediocrity, it’s more a case of how the war was wan.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Much Ado About Nothing
    The climax, in which all the characters link arms in a dance and sing, could serve as a textbook illustration of forced gaiety. Much Ado is much askew.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Gimme the Loot
    Instead of the easy attitudinizing that is the default position for teen comedies, Gimme the Loot fills each frame with raw talent and exuberance.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    OK, it’s no Fury Road, but visionary action poet George Miller scores a solid base hit by replacing the irreplaceable Charlize Theron with livewire Anya Taylor-Joy as the younger Furiosa in the exhilarating act of inventing herself. You’ll be dazzled, guaranteed.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Skyfall
    This is Bond like you've never seen him, almost Freudian in his vulnerability. And a dynamite Daniel Craig, never better in the role, nails Bond's ferocity and feeling.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    A Fantastic Woman
    A Fantastic Woman catches a human being in the challenging and exhilarating process of inventing herself. The result is unique and unforgettable.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Melancholia
    Von Trier draws us inexorably into the web of these characters. He loses us in a dream of his own devising. That's filmmaking. Now if he'd only learn to shut up at press conferences.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    With the cast getting looser and the mind games kinkier, it's hard to resist.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Paprika
    Fiercely provocative, Paprika shames Hollywood’s use of animation as a kiddie pacifier.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    The Hate U Give
    It is impossible to over-praise Stenberg’s incandescent performance, a gathering storm that grows in ferocity and feeling with each scene.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Hairspray
    It's hard to resist the film's exuberance.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    King Kong
    Here is the jaw-dropping, eye-popping, heart-stopping movie epic we've been waiting for all year.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Chicago
    Chicago, based on Bob Fosse's Broadway smash, kills.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    That's Entertainment! III
    The list goes on with moments historic and hilarious from the likes of Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller, Jimmy Durante and even Elvis. That’s more than entertainment, that’s pure gold.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    Charlie St. Cloud
    Some bad movies should carry a leper's bell to warn off ticket buyers. Such a contagion is Charlie St. Cloud, a load of mawkish swill starring Zac Efron (bereft of the talent he showed in "Me and Orson Welles").
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Travers
    Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    Let’s give thanks for this wicked, whacked-out whodunit sequel. Daniel Craig is back as southern-fried detective Benoit Blanc and all is right with the world as a cast of merry pranksters (yay Janelle Monae) turns murder most foul into comic gold.
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