Peter Travers

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For 4,000 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Peter Travers' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Amazing Grace
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,630 out of 4000
  2. Mixed: 763 out of 4000
  3. Negative: 607 out of 4000
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    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Travers
    Space Jam: A New Legacy
    Critics will pick on this overstuffed sequel to the 1996 animated-live-action hoops hit. It’s what we do when an alleged creative enterprise turns into a corporate ad campaign. Expect no grumbles from the under-13 crowd eager to eyeball LeBron James jamming in cyberspace with cartoon royalty.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Black Widow
    Even when bloated Marvel action robs the film of intimacy, Johansson digs deep into how her Russian assassin once felt outside the Avengers bubble. And Pugh deserves Oscar love as her pretend sister in this fab and fitting salute to female empowerment.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    No Sudden Move
    Set in 1954 Detroit, Soderbergh’s terrific, twisty, film-noir throwback keeps a lot of racial, political and sexual tension simmering under the surface, providing a field day for actors who interact with clockwork precision and off-the-wall laughs.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 35 Peter Travers
    The Tomorrow War
    There's nothing ‘tomorrow’ about a recycled sci-fi jumble that places all its bets on yesterday.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Sisters on Track
    You’ll want to stand up and cheer for this eye-opening true story of three Black sisters from Brooklyn who emerged from a homeless shelter with their single mother to make it in the field of competitive track with the odds stacked against them.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Travers
    F9: The Fast Saga
    As usual the plot is stupid beyond saving, but the vehicular action is insanely entertaining. That’s a fair tradeoff for the adrenaline junkie in all of us who only wants Vroom cranked up to 11. Consider it done.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Fatherhood
    Edgy comic Kevin Hart smooths out his rough edges to play a widower trying to raise his daughter alone. Hart can act, but he can’t act his way out of a sappy script that too often mistakes manipulative laughs and tears for genuine emotion.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Luca
    It’s not in the same league as such Pixar classics as ‘WALL-E’ and the ‘Toy Story’ quartet, but there’s no denying the pure enchantment of the visual, comic and subtextual dazzle in this tale of two sea monsters trying to pass for human boys in 1960’s Italy.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    In the Heights
    Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical is a surefire Oscar contender that lights up the screen with the immigrant experience of the American Dream. Anthony Ramos fires up an estupendo cast to give the summer’s best party a heart that sings and a spirit that soars.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Travers
    The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
    The third and weakest chapter in the hit "Conjuring" series messes with the facts about a real-life case of demonic possession as a legal defense, but Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson as married demonologists know how to rally nerve-rattling chills to scare us senseless.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 55 Peter Travers
    Cruella
    Two Oscar-winning Emmas—Stone and Thompson—are dressed to wow and deliver much to enjoy in this beautifully crafted fluffball, but the end result is a decorative distraction that never runs the risks it promises.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    A Quiet Place Part II
    A sequel always loses the advantage of surprise, but Krasinski eases us out of Covid lockdown by crafting the perfect thriller to get summer audiences back into movie theaters where everything is dark and everyone can hear you scream.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Travers
    Six Minutes to Midnight
    It’s a juicy premise: Eddie Izzard’s British spy vs. a school for daughters of the Nazi high command run by the great Judi Dench. But the crackerjack espionage thriller that might have been, the one filled with ideas and purpose, is defeated by flat execution.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Dream Horse
    Sure it’s hokey, but this fact-based crowdpleaser starring a terrific Toni Collette as a struggling Welsh villager who risks everything on a racehorse she breeds and raises is an underdog story that works like a charm.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Those Who Wish Me Dead
    Angelina Jolie, back in action mode as a haunted smokejumper seeking redemption, gets the job done if you’re looking for action escapism, but those who wish for something deeper and more resonant are plum out of luck.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    The Woman in the Window
    Amy Adams leads an overqualified and underserved cast as an agoraphobic child psychologist who thinks she sees a murder in this ‘Rear Window’ ripoff that just lies there, static and dreary, awaiting an animating spark that never comes.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    The Water Man
    Actor David Oyelowo makes a heartfelt directing debut in a PG adventure about a boy (Lonnie Chavez) in search of a mythic creature who might save his dying mother. Even when the pace drags, the film remains a rare gift for family audiences.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Travers
    Here Today
    A dementia subplot torpedoes the laughs, leaving Tiffany Haddish and writer-director-star Billy Crystal adrift in a comedy fizzle that forgets to be funny.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Travers
    Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse
    No knock on serving up an action-jacked Michael B. Jordan in an R-rated, red-meat, military thriller. But this clumsy update of Clancy’s 1993 bestseller should have been way better than a generic, one-note, cash grab.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Peter Travers
    Things Heard & Seen
    You know a ghost story is a hot mess when it strands a stellar Amanda Seyfried and a top cast in a remote, country house haunted by toxic masculinity, dangling plot threads and nothing worth hearing or seeing.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Travers
    My Octopus Teacher
    You’ll laugh and cry your eyes out as an emotionally bruised diver learns about life and loyalty from an eight-tentacled mollusk. This Oscar favorite and viral sensation is the year’s most unorthodox and unforgettable love story.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 5 Peter Travers
    Vanquish
    It’s a form of actor abuse to see the legendary Morgan Freeman trapped in this relentlessly violent and vapid mess that does offer one lesson to students of cinema in how to do everything calamitously wrong.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Monday
    Sebastian Stan, the Winter Soldier himself, shows he can turn up the heat with costar Denise Gough for a romcom romp in Greece that starts on a sexy, swooshing high before draining out the fun for dramatic insights that never come. Bummer.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Peter Travers
    Voyagers
    Despite an intriguing premise that suggests a ‘Lord of the Flies’ in space, Neil Burger’s fun-free thriller about young hotties playing astronauts quickly devolves into is a dud that never makes sense of its borrowed convictions or any sense at all.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    Thunder Force
    This comedy misfire starring McCarthy and Spencer as unlikely superheroes is hardly a crime against cinema. It just a bumpy road to blah in which the actors look to be having a way better time than you will. That’s messed up.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Concrete Cowboy
    An inner-city western featuring Black cowboys in a real-life setting deserves celebrating and the dynamite teamwork of Idris Elba and young Caleb McLaughlin heads off the father-son cliches in the script to keep you riveted.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Travers
    Godzilla vs. Kong
    Forgive the exposition dump in the convoluted plot and go for a clash of the titans that is spectacular in every sense of the word.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Nobody
    Bob Odenkirk aces his first role as an action star in this wild, twisty ride. He’s such a canny, captivating actor that even when the plot gets silly you're willing to follow him anywhere.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Travers
    Another Round
    A peak-form Mads Mikkelsen stars in this hilarious and heartbreaking spellbinder as a Copenhagen high-school teacher who thinks day drinking might sharpen his faculties. The Oscar for Best International Feature belongs right here.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    Chaos Walking
    A hot mess that throws a wet blanket of dystopian drivel over fresh young stars Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland. Chaos Limping is more like it.
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