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: 64
    • Peter Travers 90
    Thanks to the clever, caring touch of director Ismail Merchant, working from a script by Caryl Phillips, this steadily engrossing film captures the book's bracing humor and humanity.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Peter Travers 90
    Irresistibly deranged.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Peter Travers 90
    A personal best for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, a triumph for Scott and a war film of prodigious power. You will be shaken.
    • 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
    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: 84
    • Peter Travers 90
    Fierce, funny and finally devastating, Tanovic's superb film offers a timely look at the roots of civil war and acts of terrorism on both sides that can be exploited by political and media hypocrites alike.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Peter Travers 90
    Gorgeous filmmaking that brims over with funhouse thrills and ravishing romance.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Peter Travers 90
    That Linklater pulls off the innovative feat with hypnotic assurance is nothing short of amazing.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Peter Travers 90
    This hilarious and humane film nails its subject -- not just the unshaved armpits and the lack of underwear -- and marks Moodysson as a talent to watch.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Peter Travers 90
    Waggish fun like this is too good to miss.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Peter Travers 90
    It may sound silly, but Lord and Park conjure up a world of visual miracles.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Peter Travers 90
    Steadily engrossing and devilishly funny, and, o brother, does it look sharp.
    • 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
    You won't forget this film -- it's devastating.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Peter Travers 90
    Like Vardalos and Corbett, who play their roles with vibrant charm, the film, directed by Joel Zwick, is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you can't fake. It's a keeper.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Peter Travers 90
    An uneven movie that nonetheless bristles with stinging wit and exerts a perverse fascination.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Peter Travers 90
    When it comes to rousing action, whip-smart laughs and moral uplift that doesn't pump sunshine up your ass, Three Kings rules.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Peter Travers 90
    Lynch takes us on a journey of shattering understatement -- a remarkable accomplishment.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Peter Travers 90
    An uncommonly good movie - a thriller that transcends thrills to become a heartfelt and heart-stopping personal drama.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Peter Travers 90
    Pedro Almodovar's transfixing tragicomedy -- the best foreign movie of the year -- is also the best showcase for actresses in ages.
    • 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: 79
    • Peter Travers 90
    Kingsley creates an unforgettable monster. Acting rarely gets this hypnotically explosive.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Peter Travers 90
    Forget Oscar, Ocean's Eleven is the coolest damned thing around.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Peter Travers 90
    Elegant, funny and unexpectedly touching, this whodunit about a murder aboard the yacht of William Randolph Hearst represents a bracing comeback for Peter Bogdanovich.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Peter Travers 90
    It's a role of fierce demands, and Rampling meets them all. In a summer of crass, Rampling is a true class act.
    • 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: 75
    • Peter Travers 90
    Unique and unforgettable.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Peter Travers 90
    A uniquely hypnotic and haunting love story sparked by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue at their career best.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Peter Travers 90
    It's the no-bull performances that hold back the flood of banalities. Robbins and Freeman connect with the bruised souls of Andy and Red to create something undeniably powerful and moving.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Peter Travers 90
    Glorious, a colossus of rousing action and ferocious fun.