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Peter Travers

American film critic (born 1943 or 1944)

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Peter Joseph Travers (born June 27, 1943) 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.

Early life and education

Travers grew up in Yonkers, New York, the son of Howard and Ruth Travers. He received a BA degree from Manhattan College in 1965 before graduating from New York University with an MA in English.

Career

According to eFilmCritic.com, Travers is the nation's most "blurbed" film critic. Travers' blurbs were being printed in newspapers as early as 1970, when he was a writer for Reader's Digest. By the mid-1970s, he was a film critic for The Herald Statesman, a Yonkers newspaper. In the 1980s, he wrote for People for four years before joining Rolling Stone in 1989. In 2020, he departed Rolling Stone and became the film critic for ABC News.

Travers hosts the New York Film Critics Series, a company that hosts live-streamed screening events and discussions, as well as the ABC News show Popcorn with Peter Travers, where he interviews actors and directors about the latest projects and their lives.

Personal life

Travers married Diane Harris of White Plains, New York, in 1967; the marriage ended in divorce. In 1980, Travers married Robyn Lee Reeves, an actress and graduate of Vassar College, in an Episcopalian ceremony. He has three children: Jennifer, David and Alex.

Preferences

Favorites

In 2010, when asked to rank the best films of the 2000s decade, Travers named:

1. There Will Be Blood (2007)
1. Children of Men (2006)
1. Mulholland Drive (2001)
1. A History of Violence (2005)
1. No Country for Old Men (2007)
1. The Incredibles (2004)
1. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
1. The Departed (2006)
1. Mystic River (2003)
1. 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)
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
2024 - The Brutalist
2025 - One Battle After Another

References

(1943-07-02). "Births". [[The Journal News.
. (1987-12-21). ["Picks and Pans Review: Lollipop Dragon: The Great Christmas Race"](https://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-lollipop-dragon-the-great-christmas-race-vol-28-no-25/).
. (1980-09-28). "P.J. Travers Weds Robyn Lee Reeves". *[[The New York Times]]*.
Travers, Peter. (2020-03-31). "Movie Love in the Time of the Coronavirus". Penske Media Corporation.
. (1974-11-20). "He Provides Background on 'Exorcist'". *[[The Journal News*.
. (1965-06-09). "43 Yonkers Men Win Degrees at Riverdale's Manhattan College". *[[The Journal News*.
"Peter Travers Official Biography". [[ABC News (United States).
Childress, Erik. "Criticwatch 2008 - The Whores of the Year". eFilmCritic.com.
. (1970-12-29). "One of the Year's 10 Best!". *[[The New York Daily News]]*.
Travers, Peter. (1976-11-09). "Star of 'Sarah' Visits Westchester". [[The Journal News.
"New York Film Critics Circle: Peter Travers". New York Film Critics Circle.
"NY Film Critics Series". Nyfilmcriticsseries.com.
"Popcorn".
. (1967-07-07). "Peter J. Travers". *[[The Journal News*.
. (2006-03-10). ["Ruth Travers Obituary"](https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/lohud/name/ruth-travers-obituary?pid=149414336).
(December 3, 2010). "10 Best Movies of the Decade".
Travers, Peter. (2001-12-27). "The Best of 2001".
Travers, Peter. (December 26, 2023). "Review: The 10 best movies of 2023". [[ABC News (United States).

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