Peter Travers
American film critic (born 1943 or 1944)
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Peter Joseph Travers (born June 27, 1943)[1][2][3] is an American film critic, journalist, and television presenter. He 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.
June 27, 1943
- Journalist
- film critic
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| Born | Peter Joseph Travers June 27, 1943 |
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| Years active | 1970–present |
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| Children | 3 |
Early life and education
Travers grew up in Yonkers, New York,[4] the son of Howard and Ruth Travers.[5] He received a BA degree from Manhattan College in 1965 before graduating from New York University with an MA in English.[6][7]
Career
According to eFilmCritic.com, Travers is the nation's most "blurbed" film critic.[8] Travers' blurbs were being printed in newspapers as early as 1970, when he was a writer for Reader's Digest.[9] By the mid-1970s, he was a film critic for The Herald Statesman, a Yonkers newspaper.[10] In the 1980s, he wrote for People for four years before joining Rolling Stone in 1989.[11] In 2020, he departed Rolling Stone and became the film critic for ABC News.[12]
Travers hosts the New York Film Critics Series, a company that hosts live-streamed screening events and discussions,[13] as well as the ABC News show Popcorn with Peter Travers, where he interviews actors and directors about the latest projects and their lives.[14]
Personal life
Travers married Diane Harris of White Plains, New York, in 1967; the marriage ended in divorce.[3][15] In 1980, Travers married Robyn Lee Reeves, an actress and graduate of Vassar College, in an Episcopalian ceremony.[3] He has three children: Jennifer, David and Alex.[16]
Preferences
Favorites
In 2010, when asked to rank the best films of the 2000s decade, Travers named:[17]
- 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
As a film critic for People, Rolling Stone, and ABC, Travers has named 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 (Indie list) and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Hollywood list)[18]
- 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
- 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
- 2022 - Everything Everywhere All at Once
- 2023 - Killers of the Flower Moon and Oppenheimer[19]
- 2024 - The Brutalist
- 2025 - One Battle After Another