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Peter Travers

Peter Travers

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

Publications:
People Magazine , Rolling Stone
Critics' Group:
National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
2570
Total QuickRatings:
9

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1.5/4 46% Parkland (2013) " [Parkland] might have made for a stirring documentary. Instead, first-time director Peter Landesman opts to treat history as a parade of cameos from the famous and not-so-famous." — Rolling Stone
Posted Oct 3, 2013
4/4 98% Gravity (2013) " Gravity into a thing of transcendent beauty and terror. It's more than a movie. It's some kind of miracle." — Rolling Stone
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3/4 78% Metallica Through the Never (2013) " If you're looking for an orgasmic trip to heavy-metal heaven, this is it." — Rolling Stone
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3.5/4 83% Don Jon (2013) " Don Jon [is] a bruisingly funny, bracingly smart comic dare that marks a stellar feature directing and writing debut for Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who plays Jon with humor, heat and sneaky heart." — Rolling Stone
Posted Sep 26, 2013
2.5/4 50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " Thanks for Sharing is all over the place trying to find a tone, but it knows where its heart is." — Rolling Stone
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3.5/4 80% Prisoners (2013) " Director Denis Villeneuve's work with the exemplary actors results in a film of startling impact, packed with twists you don't see coming. You can't shake it." — Rolling Stone
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3.5/4 95% Enough Said (2013) " James Gandolfini, in one of his final roles before his death in June, is so sweetly funny in this rueful comedy that you wish he had been given more chances to tap his talent for the lighter side." — Rolling Stone
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3.5/4 88% Rush (2013) " As cars spin and shimmer in the rain at the climactic and astounding Grand Prix in Japan, we never lose sight of what's human and striving behind the wheel." — Rolling Stone
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3.5/4 86% Blue Caprice (2013) " Blue Caprice, propelled by the rending, riveting performances of Washington and Richmond, hits hard. It means to shake you and does." — Rolling Stone
Posted Sep 12, 2013
2/4 33% The Family (2013) " The Family is a comic soufflé that never rises." — Rolling Stone
Posted Sep 12, 2013
1.5/4 34% Adore (2013) " At Sundance, where the first showing was nearly laughed off the screen, Adore, based on a Doris Lessing novella, was known as Two Mothers. You should know it as something to avoid." — Rolling Stone
Posted Sep 6, 2013
1/4 34% Salinger (2013) " Make sure you bring a barf bag when you watch this doc's tacky re-enactments, hear its cheeseball score and endure literary posturings so florid they'd embarrass Baz Luhrmann of The Great Gatsby." — Rolling Stone
Posted Sep 6, 2013
2/4 60% Riddick (2013) " Riddick, an alternately kick-ass and clumsy piece of sci-fi claptrap that puts its empty head down and gets the job done." — Rolling Stone
Posted Sep 6, 2013
3/4 91% In a World... (2013) " It's an exhilarating comic rush called In a World... and in it Lake Bell spins inspired lunacy around the subject of, among other things like family dysfunction, sexual healing and female empowerment, voiceovers." — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 30, 2013
3/4 74% The Grandmaster (2013) " You leave this deeply flawed, deeply beautiful film with no doubt that you've seen an indisputable cinematic grandmaster in action." — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 30, 2013
1.5/4 34% Passion (2013) " I have no objection to DePalma laughing at himself. But his heart's not in it. Neither is his libido. Passion lacks the promise of its title. It's dead inside." — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 30, 2013
0/4 3% Getaway (2013) " For 89 minutes that feel like 89 hours, cars speed out of control and crash doing only PG-13 damage. The damage to your brain while watching it is incalculable." — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 30, 2013
76% Explorers (1985) " Their space trip may be familiar, but they make it fun." — People Magazine
Posted Aug 26, 2013
3.5/4 99% Short Term 12 (2013) " Rehab movies nearly always make me cringe, as if the audience needs to take medicine, as if hope needs to be force fed. Short Term 12, an exceptional film in every way, breaks the mold. " — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 23, 2013
2.5/4 75% You're Next (2013) " Home invasion thrillers seem to come along every five minutes... Kudos then to indie director Adam Wingard for kicking in with some fresh ideas. " — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 23, 2013
3.5/4 89% The World's End (2013) " To my surprise, a diamond has emerged from the gutter. Its name is The World's End, and it'll knock you on you ass from laughing when you're not rubbing your eyes in disbelief. " — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 23, 2013
1/4 4% Paranoia (2013) " I smiled twice during Paranoia. Both times when Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman had scenes together and hammed it up like pros in hog heaven." — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2/4 26% Jobs (2013) " Jobs is a one-man show that needed to go for broke and doesn't. My guess is that Jobs would give it a swat." — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3/4 81% Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) " Ain't Them Bodies Saints offers no glib answers or smooth resolution, but there's no question that Lowery is a filmmaker with a striking future." — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2.5/4 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " There's no denying the stumbles that mar this alternately riveting and risible historical epic. Yet Lee Daniels' The Butler holds you, provokes you and ultimately moves you." — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3/4 68% Elysium (2013) " Elysium delivers sci-fi without dumbing it down. It's a hell-raiser with a social conscience." — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2/4 54% Lovelace (2013) " Amanda Seyfried looks ripe to take on the life of Linda Lovelace, the Deep Throat blow-job queen who made porn accessible to 1970s America. " — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2/4 63% 2 Guns (2013) " I really meant to at least like 2 Guns. But I couldn't. The movie just didn't make the extra effort." — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 1, 2013
3/4 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " James Ponsoldt's funny and touching coming-of-age tale covers old ground with disarming freshness... By taking it slow, The Spectacular Now takes a piece out of you. " — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 1, 2013
1/4 22% The Canyons (2013) " If the subtext of this misbegotten parade of lame shock tactics is the death of cinema, then The Canyons certainly knows how to nail the coffin shut." — Rolling Stone
Posted Aug 1, 2013
88% The Big Easy (1987) " Oooowee, here is one scorchingly sexy movie." — People Magazine
Posted Jul 31, 2013
93% A Fish Called Wanda (1988) " Putting heart and heat into a film that could have easily slid by on silliness, Cleese proves himself a master actor." — People Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2013
95% Midnight Run (1988) " Brace yourself for a movie joyride that sends you home reeling from thrills, laughter and the pleasure of honest sentiment." — People Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2013
98% Aliens (1986) " So much for the theory that sequels never equal the original." — People Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2013
98% Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) " Your eyeballs have no choice but to go boinnnnng." — People Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2013
96% The Fugitive (1993) " For dynamite suspense loaded with thrills and wicked fun, you can't beat The Fugitive." — Rolling Stone
Posted Jul 29, 2013
96% Ghostbusters (1984) " Director Ivan Reitman keeps the Aykroyd-Ramis screenplay zipping right along, creating something like Abbott & Costello Meet the Exorcist. Aykroyd and Murray make the perfect summer tonic for raising spirits." — People Magazine
Posted Jul 29, 2013
3/4 52% The To Do List (2013) " Does Carey go too far? Duh. But why gripe when you can't stop laughing?" — Rolling Stone
Posted Jul 25, 2013
2.5/4 69% The Wolverine (2013) " Hugh Jackman, in his sixth time up as Wolverine, still has the juice. This pissed-off man of Adamantium claws is stalking new ground (Japan), and his fight with yakuza on top of Tokyo's speeding bullet train is a wowser." — Rolling Stone
Posted Jul 25, 2013
3.5/4 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " Want to see great acting, from comic to tragic and every electrifying stop in between? See Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine. " — Rolling Stone
Posted Jul 25, 2013
3/4 98% Blackfish (2013) " Meet a theme-park phenom in the form of the killer whales (orcas in the trade) on view in Gabriela Cowperthwaite's gripping mindbender of a documentary." — Rolling Stone
Posted Jul 19, 2013
2/4 40% Only God Forgives (2013) " Where Drive shrewdly mystifies, Only God Forgives stupefies. You can see its gears grinding. But I'll always hang on for a rare talent like Refn. Even when he stumbles, he leaves you eager to see what he's up to next." — Rolling Stone
Posted Jul 19, 2013
3/4 87% The Conjuring (2013) " It scared the living crap out of me. Only at the movies is that a compliment. So kudos to The Conjuring for putting fresh fire into the overworked haunted-house genre." — Rolling Stone
Posted Jul 19, 2013
3/4 81% Crystal Fairy (2013) " [This] trippy comic odyssey may not be for everyone. But Crystal Fairy gives off fumes that deliver a indisputable high." — Rolling Stone
Posted Jul 11, 2013
3.5/4 94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " Fruitvale Station is a gut punch of a movie. By standing in solidarity with Oscar, it becomes an unstoppable cinematic force." — Rolling Stone
Posted Jul 11, 2013
3/4 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " Pacific Rim, thank the gods of cinema, is the work of a humanist ready to banish cynicism for compassion. " — Rolling Stone
Posted Jul 11, 2013
92% Die Hard (1988) " Willis gleefully strips down the action movie to a pretend game for children who like to fire guns and shoot bad guys. Machismo may never be the same." — People Magazine
Posted Jul 9, 2013
2.5/4 65% The Heat (2013) " There are only two reasons to see The Heat. But they are formidable reasons, and they go by the names of Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. " — Rolling Stone
Posted Jul 8, 2013
3.5/4 85% The Way Way Back (2013) " The Way Way Back gets it wittily, thrillingly right. It turns the familiar into something bracingly fresh and funny. It makes you laugh, then breaks your heart." — Rolling Stone
Posted Jul 8, 2013
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