Peter Travers
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Peter Travers is the film critic for Rolling Stone magazine.
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[edit] Career
According to efilmcritic.com, Travers is the most blurbed film critic. Prior to writing for Rolling Stone, Travers was a film critic for People magazine from 1984–1988.
[edit] Reviews
Some of the films that Travers has assigned his top rating (four stars) include: King Kong, Sideways, Mystic River, United 93, Lost in Translation, Brokeback Mountain, Far From Heaven, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation., Gangs of New York, Big Fish, Kill Bill Volume 2, Babel, Syriana, Jackass Number 2 and Borat.
Travers named Blue Velvet the top film of the 1980s.
[edit] Criticism
Travers has been criticised for saying sensationalistic things in his reviews. These things are either strongly supporting or strongly opposing a film so oftentimes his "blurbs" appear on DVD cases.
