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| Born | Peter Joseph Travers June 27, 1943 |
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| Years active | 1970–present |
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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.
Early life
Travers grew up in Yonkers, New York.[4] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Manhattan College in 1965, followed by a Master of Arts degree in English from New York University.[5][6]
Career
Travers has been called the nation's most "blurbed" film critic.[7] His blurbs appeared in newspapers as early as 1970, when he was a writer for Reader's Digest.[8] By the mid-1970s, he was a film critic for The Herald Statesman, a Yonkers newspaper.[9] In the 1980s, he wrote for People for four years before joining Rolling Stone in 1989.[10] In 2020, he departed Rolling Stone and became the film critic for ABC News.[11]
Travers hosts the New York Film Critics Series, a company that hosts live-streamed screening events and discussions,[12] as well as the ABC News show Popcorn with Peter Travers, where he interviews actors and directors about the latest projects and their lives.[13]
Personal life
Travers married Diane Harris of White Plains, New York, in 1967; the marriage ended in divorce.[3][14] In 1980, Travers married Robyn Lee Reeves, an actress and graduate of Vassar College, in an Episcopalian ceremony.[3] He has three children.[15]
Preferences
Favorites
In 2010, when asked to rank the best films of the 2000s decade, Travers named:[16]
- 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)[17]
- 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[18]
- 2024 - The Brutalist[19]
- 2025 - One Battle After Another
References
- ↑ "Births". The Herald Statesman. July 2, 1943. p. 9. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
Travers—To Howard and Ruth Wolsey Travers...June 27, a son, Peter.
- ↑ "},"date":{"wt":"1987-12-21"},"website":{"wt":"[[People (magazine)|People]]"},"access-date":{"wt":"2022-05-05"},"quote":{"wt":"Peter Travers, 43, agrees: 'I couldn't stand it.'"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwow"/>"Picks and Pans Review: Lollipop Dragon: The Great Christmas Race". People. December 21, 1987. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
Peter Travers, 43, agrees: 'I couldn't stand it.'
- 1 2 3 "},"date":{"wt":"1980-09-28"},"title":{"wt":"P.J. Travers Weds Robyn Lee Reeves"},"page":{"wt":"68"},"work":{"wt":"[[The New York Times]]"},"url":{"wt":"https://www.nytimes.com/1980/09/28/archives/pj-travers-weds-robyn-lee-reeves.html"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwtA"/>"P.J. Travers Weds Robyn Lee Reeves". The New York Times. September 28, 1980. p. 68.
- ↑ Travers, Peter (March 31, 2020). "Movie Love in the Time of the Coronavirus". Rolling Stone. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
- ↑ "},"url":{"wt":"https://www.newspapers.com/image/678030948/"},"date":{"wt":"1965-06-09"},"title":{"wt":"43 Yonkers Men Win Degrees at Riverdale's Manhattan College"},"page":{"wt":"56"},"work":{"wt":"[[The Journal News|The Herald Statesman]]"},"quote":{"wt":"Bachelor of Arts...Peter J. Travers."}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwxw"/>"43 Yonkers Men Win Degrees at Riverdale's Manhattan College". The Herald Statesman. June 9, 1965. p. 56.
Bachelor of Arts...Peter J. Travers.
- ↑ "Peter Travers Official Biography". ABC News. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018.
- ↑ Childress, Erik. "Criticwatch 2008 - The Whores of the Year". eFilmCritic.com. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- ↑ "},"date":{"wt":"1970-12-29"},"title":{"wt":"One of the Year's 10 Best!"},"page":{"wt":"57"},"work":{"wt":"[[The New York Daily News]]"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mw5A"/>"One of the Year's 10 Best!". The New York Daily News. December 29, 1970. p. 57.
- ↑ Travers, Peter (November 9, 1976). "Star of 'Sarah' Visits Westchester". The Herald Statesman. Yonkers, New York. p. 21.
- ↑ "New York Film Critics Circle: Peter Travers". New York Film Critics Circle. Archived from the original on April 27, 2006. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- ↑ Friedman, Roger (September 8, 2020). "Exclusive: Peter Travers Exits Rolling Stone after 36 Years as Chief Film Critic, Made Magazine Important in Hollywood: 'It's been a hell of a ride'". Showbiz 411. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
- ↑ "NY Film Critics Series". Nyfilmcriticsseries.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015.
- ↑ "Popcorn". ABC News. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
- ↑ "},"date":{"wt":"1967-07-07"},"title":{"wt":"Peter J. Travers"},"page":{"wt":"32"},"work":{"wt":"[[The Journal News|The Herald Statesman]]"},"location":{"wt":"Yonkers, New York"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwAR0"/>"Peter J. Travers". The Herald Statesman. Yonkers, New York. July 7, 1967. p. 32.
- ↑ "},"date":{"wt":"2006-03-10"},"website":{"wt":"Legacy"},"access-date":{"wt":"2022-05-06"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwASY"/>"Ruth Travers Obituary". Legacy. March 10, 2006. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
- ↑ "10 Best Movies of the Decade". Rolling Stone. December 3, 2010. Retrieved January 16, 2022.
- ↑ Travers, Peter (December 27, 2001). "The Best of 2001". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 24, 2022.
- ↑ Travers, Peter (December 26, 2023). "Review: The 10 best movies of 2023". ABC News. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
- ↑ Travers, Peter (December 17, 2024). "Review: The 10 best movies of 2024". ABC News. Retrieved June 30, 2026.
