Peter Travers
Peter Travers | |
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| Alma mater | New York University |
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| Years active | 1984–present |
Peter Travers is an American film critic, journalist, and television presenter. He currently[when?] reviews films for ABC News and previously served as a movie critic for People and Rolling Stone. Travers also hosts the film interview program Popcorn with Peter Travers for ABC News.
Education[edit]
Travers holds a Master of Arts degree in English from New York University.[1]
Career[edit]
Travers joined Rolling Stone in 1989 after a four-year stint with People.[2] According to eFilmCritic.com, Travers is the nation's most blurbed film critic.[3] He has also shown a great deal of disdain for certain directors, most notably Michael Bay and his films.[4] Travers also hosts The New York Film Critics Series, a company that hosts live-streamed screening events and discussions.[5] He also hosts the ABC News show Popcorn with Peter Travers interviewing actors and directors about the latest projects and their lives.[6] Travers departed Rolling Stone in 2020 and became the film critic for ABC News that same year.
Preferences[edit]
Favorites[edit]
When asked to rank the best films of the 2000s decade, Travers named:[7]
- 1. There Will Be Blood (2007)
- 2. Children of Men (2006)
- 3. Mulholland Drive (2001)
- 4. A History of Violence (2005)
- 5. No Country for Old Men (2007)
- 6. The Incredibles (2004)
- 7. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- 8. The Departed (2006)
- 9. Mystic River (2003)
- 10. The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003)
Best of the year[edit]
Since his career as a film critic from People to Rolling Stone, Travers marked these films the best of the year:
- 1989 - Do the Right Thing
- 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
- 2001 - Memento
- 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: Based on the Book Precious by Sapphire
- 2010 - The Social Network
- 2011 - Drive
- 2012 - The Master
- 2013 - 12 Years a Slave
- 2014 - Boyhood
- 2015 - Spotlight
- 2016 - La La Land
- 2017 - Dunkirk
- 2018 - Roma
- 2019 - The Irishman
- 2020 - Da 5 Bloods
- 2021 - The Power of the Dog
References[edit]
- ^ "Peter Travers Official Biography". ABC News. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018.
- ^ "New York Film Critics Circle: Peter Travers". New York Film Critics Circle. Archived from the original on April 27, 2006. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- ^ Childress, Erik. "Criticwatch 2008 - The Whores of the Year". eFilmCritic.com. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- ^ "Rolling Stone review of Pain and Gain". Rolling Stone. May 2, 2013.
- ^ "NY Film Critics Series". Nyfilmcriticsseries.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015.
- ^ "Popcorn". ABC News. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
- ^ "10 Best Movies of the Decade". Rolling Stone. December 3, 2010. Retrieved January 16, 2022.
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