Peter Travers
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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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[edit] Career
Travers joined Rolling Stone in 1989 after a four-year stint with People. He's best known for his basic writing style that eschews a 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.
[edit] 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, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, WALL-E, Up, Where The Wild Things Are, and Avatar (which he initially rated three and a half stars, but changed his rating in Rolling Stone Issue 1097[1]).
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, All About Steve, and Crazy on the Outside.
[edit] 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
- 2009: Precious
- Best Film of the '00s: There Will Be Blood
[edit] References
- ^ Travers, Peter (2010-02-04). "'Avatar': A Closer Look at a Megahit". Rolling Stone (1097): 67.
[edit] External links
- The Travers Take
- http://www.rottentomatoes.com/author-2726/
- http://www.nyfilmcritics.com/critics.htm
- http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Movies/
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