Peter Travers
Peter Travers is an American film critic known for reviewing movies for Rolling Stone and appearing on television film-review programs.
Rolling Stone: An American magazine covering music, politics, and popular culture, founded in 1967. Travers became widely known for his film reviews in the magazine.
Film criticism: The evaluation and interpretation of films through journalism, scholarship, or public commentary. Travers's reviews are a prominent form of contemporary film criticism.
Film genre: A category of films defined by recurring conventions, themes, or styles. Genre conventions provide a point of comparison in many individual film reviews.
Film journalism: Journalistic reporting and criticism focused on films and the film industry. Travers's career is part of film journalism's movement across magazines and television.
Roger Ebert: An American film critic and screenwriter who wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times and co-hosted television review shows. Ebert helped establish televised movie criticism as a recognizable public role.
Movie review: A published or broadcast assessment of a film's artistic qualities and effectiveness. This is the recurring format through which Travers addresses individual releases.
Film theory: The study of cinema's forms, meanings, technologies, and social effects. It supplies interpretive frameworks that differ from the practical judgments of newspaper and magazine criticism.
Film promotion: The marketing activity used to build awareness and audience interest in a film. Reviews enter the publicity cycle that shapes a film's public reception.
Gene Siskel: An American film critic for the Chicago Tribune who co-hosted movie-review programs with Roger Ebert. Siskel represents the television film-critic tradition alongside which Travers worked.
At the Movies: An American television program in which critics reviewed current films, originally hosted by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. Travers appeared on the program, bringing his reviews to a television audience.