Peter Travers

Peter Travers

:"This is about the film critic. For the singing colleague of Mary Travers, see Peter Yarrow."
Peter Travers (fl. late 20th century) is an American film critic. He has been the regular film reviewer for, in turn, "People" and "Rolling Stone" magazines.

Career

According to [http://www.efilmcritic.com efilmcritic.com] , Travers is the most blurbed film critic. Prior to writing for "Rolling Stone", Travers was a film critic for "People" magazine 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. Travers is frequently critical of the Academy Awards.Fact|date=March 2008 He has named "The Godfather" as his favorite film.Fact|date=March 2008 Some of the contemporary directors he is most receptive to based on ratings and place in year end top-10 lists include Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Alexander Payne, Tim Burton, Clint Eastwood, Peter Jackson, Pedro Almodovar, and Ang Lee.

Reviews

Some of the films that Travers has assigned his top rating (four stars) include: "The Big Lebowski", "Letters from Iwo Jima", "King Kong", "Sideways", "Mystic River", "United 93", "Brokeback Mountain", "Far From Heaven", "Gangs of New York", "Kill Bill Volume 2", "Babel", "Syriana", "Volver", "The Departed", "", and most recently "No Country for Old Men", "Atonement", "There Will Be Blood", "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" and "WALL-E". Travers didn't use star-ratings until 2002. 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" and "Norbit".

Travers named "Blue Velvet" the best film of the 1980s.

External links

* http://www.rottentomatoes.com/author-2726/
* http://www.nyfilmcritics.com/critics.htm


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