For 2,128 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Peter Travers' Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 64
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
2,128 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 65
    • Peter Travers 90
    Ali
    Ali is a bruiser, unwieldy in length and ambition. But Mann and Smith deliver this powerhouse with the urgency of a champ's left hook.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Peter Travers 90
    A dynamite bundle from British writer-director Guy Ritchie. Even when the accents are as indecipherable as the plot, Ritchie keeps the action percolating and the humor on high.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Peter Travers 90
    Lane is a force of nature. Her slow-burning, fiercely erotic performance charges the movie.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Peter Travers 90
    "Waves" is a spellbinder.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Peter Travers 90
    Gorgeous filmmaking that brims over with funhouse thrills and ravishing romance.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Peter Travers 90
    Anderson offers no phony uplift for the Tenenbaums or for audiences. But he does know how to take a sad song and make it better. In these troubled times, that's a gift.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Peter Travers 90
    A uniquely hypnotic and haunting love story sparked by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue at their career best.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Peter Travers 90
    That Linklater pulls off the innovative feat with hypnotic assurance is nothing short of amazing.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Peter Travers 90
    Forget Oscar, Ocean's Eleven is the coolest damned thing around.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Peter Travers 90
    Unforgiven is the most provocative western of Eastwood's career, and with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris along for the ride, it's also the most potently acted.
    • Metascore: 92
    • Peter Travers 90
    A marvel of delicacy and humor.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Peter Travers 90
    Whether or not Casino meets your expectations, it delivers the rush you only get from an audacious gamble.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Peter Travers 90
    Cage, who gives a blazing, imposive performance, uses his haunted eyes to reveal the emotional scars that Frank can't heal.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Peter Travers 90
    The crazy-ass imagination at work in Being John Malkovich hits you like a blast of pure oxygen...this movie of constant astonishments will make you laugh hard and long.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Peter Travers 90
    Only some bumpy, arid passages in the script keep The Others out of the master class occupied by the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and, my favorite, 1961's "The Innocents."
    • Metascore: 85
    • Peter Travers 90
    Mitchell gives this post-punk, neo-glam rock extravaganza everything in his loaded arsenal of talents. He gets the sound right, the look right, the fun right and - this is crucial - the pain right.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Peter Travers 90
    Let the unsettling secrets of this outrageously funny and steadily engrossing meditation on the life of two high school misfits after graduation catch you by surprise. It's that good.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Peter Travers 90
    The challenge is exhilarating. You can discover a lot about yourself by getting lost in Mulholland Drive. It grips you like a dream that won't let go.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Peter Travers 90
    A movie heart-breaker of oddball wit and startling grace.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Peter Travers 90
    Maguire and Dunst keep Spider-Man on a high with their sweet-sexy yearning, spinning a web of dazzle and delicacy that might just restore the good name of movie escapism.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Peter Travers 88
    A burst of pure filmmaking exhilaration that manages to pay homage to the classic 1960s TV series and still boldly go where no man, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy included, has gone before.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Peter Travers 88
    Eastwood's modest approach to these momentous events shames the usual Hollywood showboating. In a rare achievement, he's made a film that truly is good for the soul.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Peter Travers 88
    Tone-deaf but thunderously exciting.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Peter Travers 88
    DiCaprio, in his most haunting and emotionally complex performance yet, is the vessel Scorsese uses to lead us through the film’s laby­rinth.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Peter Travers 88
    One-word reaction: bravo.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Peter Travers 88
    An Education is remarkable for the traps it doesn't fall into. Jenny, for all her naive impulses, isn't a victim.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Peter Travers 88
    Here's the Iraq War movie for those who don't like Iraq War movies.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Peter Travers 88
    An adventure in pure imagination that plays to the smart kid in all of us.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Peter Travers 88
    This haunting film never pushes itself on you. It trusts you to suss out the horror that lies beneath the veneer of innocence. You'll be knocked for a loop.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Peter Travers 88
    The film belongs to Firth. Uncanny at showing the heart crumbling under George's elegant exterior, he gives the performance of his career.