Peter Travers

Travers grew up in Yonkers, New York, the son of Howard and Ruth Travers. He received a BA degree from Manhattan College in 1965 before graduating from New York University with an MA in English. ==Career==

According to eFilmCritic.com, Travers is the nation's most "blurbed" film critic. Travers' blurbs were being printed in newspapers as early as 1970, when he was a writer for ''Reader's Digest. By the mid-1970s, he was a film critic for The Herald Statesman, a Yonkers newspaper. In the 1980s, he wrote for People for four years before joining Rolling Stone in 1989. In 2020, he departed Rolling Stone'' and became the film critic for ABC News. Travers hosts the New York Film Critics Series, a company that hosts live-streamed screening events and discussions, as well as the ABC News show Popcorn with Peter Travers, where he interviews actors and directors about the latest projects and their lives. ==Personal life==

Travers married Diane Harris of White Plains, New York, in 1967; the marriage ended in divorce. In 1980, Travers married Robyn Lee Reeves, an actress and graduate of Vassar College, in an Episcopalian ceremony. == Preferences ==

Favorites In 2010, when asked to rank the best films of the 2000s decade, Travers named: • 1. There Will Be Blood (2007) • 2. Children of Men (2006) • 3. Mulholland Drive (2001) • 4. A History of Violence (2005) • 5. No Country for Old Men (2007) • 6. The Incredibles (2004) • 7. Brokeback Mountain (2005) • 8. The Departed (2006) • 9. Mystic River (2003) • 10. The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) Best of the year As a film critic for People, Rolling Stone, and ABC, Travers has named these films the best of the year: ==References==