Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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For 2,128 reviews, this critic has graded:
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60% higher than the average critic
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37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5 points higher than other critics.
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Peter Travers' Scores
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Positive: 1,392 out of 2128
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Mixed: 371 out of 2128
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Negative: 365 out of 2128
2,128
movie reviews
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Peter Travers 100
Stimulating entertainment, as rigorously challenging and painfully funny as anything the Coens have done. But it's necessary to meet the Coens halfway. If you don't, Barton Fink is an empty exercise that will bore you breathless. If you do, it's a comic nightmare that will stir your imagination like no film in years. -
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Peter Travers 100
No one interested in the power and magic of movies should miss it. -
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Peter Travers 100
Fellowship is the real deal, a movie epic that pops your eyes out, piles on thrills and fun, and yet stays intimately attuned to character. -
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Peter Travers 100
Part of the miracle of Robert Altman's triumphantly fierce, funny, moving and innovative Short Cuts is that you can't get this movie out of your head. You keep playing it back to savor its formula-smashing audacity, its peerless performances and its cleareyed view of blasted lives. -
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Peter Travers 100
Exciting and then some, Face/Off blends the director's supercharged images of balletic brutality and spiritual catharsis with an off-the-wall humor that allows John Travolta and Nicolas Cage to really let it rip. -
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Peter Travers 100
Most movies stress the agony of art (think of Kirk Douglas' Van Gogh in "Lust for Life"). Schnabel's exceptional film honors his friend by showing the act of creation as a natural high. -
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Peter Travers 100
Ephron homes in on what's been missing in movies and in life: ardor, longing and smart talk about the screwed-up notions that pass for love. -
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Peter Travers 100
Amid the clamor from outraged purists and Shakespeare spinning in his Stratford-on-Avon, England, grave, you should notice that Luhrmann and his two bright angels have shaken up a 400-year-old play without losing its touching, poetic innocence. -
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Peter Travers 100
Writer and director Carl Franklin ("One False Move") scores a triumph in using the brooding atmosphere and racial tension of the sun-kissed, seedy City of Angels to reveal character and reclaim a neglected past that ace cinematographer Tak Fujimoto brings to vivid life. -
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Peter Travers 100
Writer and first-time director Anthony Minghella lays on the whimsy a bit thick at times, but his wryly funny and heartfelt observations on sorrow go down much easier than the Hollywood brand of lump-in-the-throat histrionics. -
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Peter Travers 100
Broken Arrow delivers the hippest action fun around. Travolta's "Dr. Strangelove" exit will blow you away. Ditto the movie. -
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Peter Travers 100
But Stone has found in Cruise the ideal actor to anchor the movie with simplicity and strength. Together they do more than show what happened to Kovic. Their fervent, consistently gripping film shows why it still urgently matters. -
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Peter Travers 100
Fighter shapes up as one of the great documentaries of this year, or any other. -
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Peter Travers 100
Keep your eyes on Garfield - he's shatteringly good, the soul of a film that might otherwise be without one. The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade. -
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Peter Travers 100
A brilliant piece of nasty business that races on a B-movie track until it switches to the dizzying fuel of undiluted creativity. Damn, it's good. You can get buzzed just from the fumes coming off this wild thing.- Posted Sep 15, 2011
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Peter Travers 100
Payne's low-key approach only deepens the film's intimate power. Want a movie you can really connect with? The Descendants is damn near perfect.- Posted Nov 15, 2011
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Peter Travers 100
Hang on tight. The knockout punch of the movie season is being delivered by Zero Dark Thirty.- Posted Dec 18, 2012
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Peter Travers 100
There's no way you won't be captivated by Wallis, chosen ahead of 3,500 candidates to play the tiny folk hero who narrates the story. Her performance in this deceptively small film is a towering achievement.- Posted Jun 28, 2012
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Peter Travers 100
Written, directed, acted, shot, edited and scored with a bracing vibrancy that restores your faith in film as an art form, The Master is nirvana for movie lovers. Anderson mixes sounds and images into a dark, dazzling music that is all his own.- Posted Sep 10, 2012
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Peter Travers 100
Whatever a modern love story is, Before Midnight takes it to the next level. It's damn near perfect.- Posted May 23, 2013
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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. -
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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. -
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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. -
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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. -
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Peter Travers 90
Get your titles straight -- this is the good one, and a roaring good time. -
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