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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Casualties of War
    What makes the film distinctive, devastating and unforget-table is the way De Palma lets the actions of the characters speak volumes. There is no conflict between what De Palma and Rabe are trying to say. But their methods are different. De Palma shows; Rabe tells...This is a portrait of hell so harrowing it’s impossible to shake.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Milk
    It's a total triumph, brimming with humor, heart, sexual heat, political provocation and a crying need to stir things up, just like Harvey did. If there's a better movie around this year, with more bristling purpose, I sure as hell haven't seen it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Fat Girl
    An absolute stunner of a movie.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    The Madness of King George
    Comedy and tragedy cohere in this extraordinary film of Alan Bennett's play.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    The Kid Stays in the Picture
    This stuff is golden. Directors Brett Morgan and Nanette Burstein make sure the movie goes down like potato chips. It's great fun and compulsively watchable. And don't leave before Dustin Hoffman makes a hilarious appearance as the credits roll.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Faces Places
    Sheer perfection – that's the phrase that springs to mind when describing the humanist miracle that is Faces Places, the year's best and most beguiling documentary.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Army of Shadows
    From the first sight of German soldiers goose-stepping past the Arc de Triomphe to a postscript that spells out the fate of characters whose moral confusion is all too real, Army of Shadows is a movie of its time -- and ours.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Before Midnight
    Whatever a modern love story is, Before Midnight takes it to the next level. It's damn near perfect.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    The Lion King
    A hugely entertaining blend of music, fun and eye-popping thrills, though it doesn't lack for heart.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Black Panther
    Say this about Black Panther, which raises movie escapism very near the level of art: You've never seen anything like it in your life.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    The Honeymoon Killers
    An ugly masterpiece.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    The Green Knight
    In a summer of junk, cinema visionary David Lowery delivers a modern movie masterpiece about a wannabe knight (a sensational, Oscar worthy Dev Patel) who must fight monsters he can and cannot see. It’s a unique and unforgettable film that ranks with the year's best.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    To Die For
    To Die For, sparked by a volcanically sexy and richly comic performance by Kidman that deserves to make her an Oscar favorite, is prime social satire and outrageous fun.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Almost Famous
    If you haven't already sold your soul to rock & roll, Almost Famous should seal the deal.
    • Rolling Stone
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Judy Berlin
    Some movies are too good to miss. Judy Berlin is one of them...It works like magic.
    • Rolling Stone
    • 52 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Wild at Heart
    Starting with the outrageous and building from there, he ignites a slight love-on-the-run novel, creating a bonfire of a movie that confirms his reputation as the most exciting and innovative filmmaker of his generation.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    My Left Foot
    Throughout his life, Brown refused to give in to public convention or his own despair; he wouldn't play the victim. Brown labored to express all of his feelings, not just the acceptable ones. Day Lewis works the same way. My Left Foot, a keen match of actor and subject, stands as an eloquent tribute to the talents of both.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Fight Club
    Pulls you in, challenges your prejudices, rocks your world and leaves you laughing in the face of an abyss. It's alive, all right. It's also an uncompromising American classic.
    • Rolling Stone
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Raging Bull
    A fiercely poetic study of violence. Stunningly shot in black-and-white. [14 Dec 1989, p.23]
    • Rolling Stone
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Spotlight
    This landmark film takes a clear-eyed look at the digital future and honors the one constant that journalism needs to stay alive and relevant: a fighting spirit.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Spirited Away
    Miyazaki is the Pied Piper -- see Spirited Away and you'll follow him anywhere.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Drive
    A brilliant piece of nasty business that races on a B-movie track until it switches to the dizzying fuel of undiluted creativity. Damn, it's good. You can get buzzed just from the fumes coming off this wild thing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    The Wolf of Wall Street
    DiCaprio's swaggering, swinging-dick performance is the wildest damn thing he's ever put onscreen.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Heavenly Creatures
    Jackson’s visionary triumph, heightened by the blazing performances of Lynskey and Winslet and by Alun Bollinger’s whirling camera, is in capturing the delirium as the girls whip themselves into an erotic frenzy with Mario Lanza records, semi-naked dances in the woods and revenge fantasies.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    The Worst Person in the World
    Joachim Trier’s scintillating Oscar contender from Norway, led by a captivating new star in Renate Reinsve, sets a new gold standard for romantic comedy just before it sneaks up and hits you like a shot in the heart.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Letters from Iwo Jima
    Eastwood's direction here is a thing of beauty, blending the ferocity of the classic films of Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) with the delicacy and unblinking gaze of Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story).
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Manchester by the Sea
    No film this year has moved me more with its humor, heart and humanity.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    The Abyss
    Stupendously exciting and emotionally engulfing... With probing intelligence and passionate feeling, Cameron has raised the adventure film very close to the level of art.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    The Apostle
    Duvall is a blazing wonder in a film that ranks with the year's best.
    • Rolling Stone
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    The Brutalist
    Brady Corbet’s engulfing masterpiece about an immigrant architect (an Oscarbound Adrien Brody) is the best movie of the year, but it’s also way more than that— an unsentimental; uncompromising thunderbolt of pure cinema that Corbet has built to last.
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