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:
Score distribution:
2,128 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 93
    • Peter Travers 100
    What makes it such a mesmerizing, wickedly witty entertainment is the revealing portrait it paints of an era in which everyone is presumed guilty where greed is concerned... It's an often chilly movie, but the chill cuts to the bone.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Peter Travers 100
    A ravishing, romantic lark brimming over with style, intelligence and flashing wit.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Peter Travers 100
    Nothing the Hughes brothers have done in their videos for Tone Loc, Tupac Shakur and others prepares you for the controlled intensity and maturity they bring to their stunning feature debut.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Peter Travers 100
    Beach and Adams give remarkable performances that grow in feeling and intensity.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Peter Travers 100
    A sharply observant and witty film that plumbs unexpected depths of feeling.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Peter Travers 100
    As ever, Freeman delivers miracles; he's as good as it gets.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Peter Travers 100
    Duvall is a blazing wonder in a film that ranks with the year's best.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Peter Travers 100
    One of the year's best and most provocative films.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Peter Travers 100
    One terrific movie... Pacino and Depp are a match made in acting heaven, riffing off each other with astonishing subtlety and wit.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Peter Travers 100
    That the performances are uniformly outstanding is a tribute to Rob Reiner, who directs with masterly assurance, fusing suspense and character to create a movie that literally vibrates with energy.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Peter Travers 100
    Stupendously exciting and emotionally engulfing... With probing intelligence and passionate feeling, Cameron has raised the adventure film very close to the level of art.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Peter Travers 100
    Gilliam, along with the gifted cinematographer Roger Pratt and production designer Jeffrey Beecroft, fashions a disturbing and dazzling lost world.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Peter Travers 100
    Taut, tense and enthralling, as smart and surprising as it protagonist.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Peter Travers 100
    It's taut, tense and terrific.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Peter Travers 100
    A movie of prodigious power and feeling that is also high-spirited, hilarious and scorchingly erotic.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Peter Travers 100
    To Die For, sparked by a volcanically sexy and richly comic performance by Kidman that deserves to make her an Oscar favorite, is prime social satire and outrageous fun.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Peter Travers 100
    Sensational, sicko fun -- you won't believe your eyes -- and just the thing to shake up the creeping conservatism that is draining the vulgar life out of pop culture.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Peter Travers 100
    Savor their technique and the sizzling performances of Frances McDormand as an adulterous wife, Dan Hedaya as her vengeful husband and M. Emmet Walsh as a private detective from hell.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Peter Travers 100
    In this risky, riveting film, our most prolific and provocative moviemaker uses his wit to touch a nerve. Crimes and Misdemeansors is so funny it hurts.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Peter Travers 100
    Anderson orchestrates a comic romance like no other. The effect is intoxicating. Sandler and the movie will knock you for a loop.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Peter Travers 100
    Paradis sizzles in a star-making role that gleams like one of Gabor's blades. She's a spellbinder.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Peter Travers 100
    With it's dynamite performances, strafing wit and dramatic provocation, The Insider offers Mann at his best -- blood up, unsanitized and unbowed.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Peter Travers 100
    Like the music, the film is outspoken, roaringly funny, defiantly sexual and relentlessly in your face. I couldn't have liked it more.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Peter Travers 100
    This is the untamed Apocalypse that Coppola envisioned in 1979 before money and mental pressures made him fear he had created something too long, too weird and too morally demanding for the masses.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Peter Travers 100
    Recoing gives a performance that won't soon be forgotten. Neither will Time Out. It's a great movie.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Peter Travers 100
    Clooney brings raw intensity to his role; his scenes with McElhone are rooted in a fierce romantic yearning.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Peter Travers 100
    A landmark musical tribute.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Peter Travers 100
    The pleasure of this unique film comes in watching superb actors dine on Mamet's pungent language like the feast it is.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Peter Travers 100
    Cuaron's hot-blooded, haunting and wildly erotic film revels in the pleasures of the flesh without losing touch with thought and feeling.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Peter Travers 100
    Michael Gerbosi's script might have reduced Crane to a clueless cliche were it not for the bruised humanity that Greg Kinnear brings to the role. Kinnear is dynamite.