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• December 23, 11:24 AM EDT

  Peter Travers' Best and Worst of 2010: From the Sublime ('Social Network') to the Ridiculous ('Tourist') By Rolling Stone

  

  The Social Network — or "The Facebook Movie," as everyone seemed to call it — tops Peter Travers' list of the Best Films of the Year. Travers writes that "the movie that told us who we were this year, this decade: willing slaves to technology as a substitute for direct communication." He adds that the film uses Facebook to "hold up a mirror to the way we live now... with wit, imagination, honesty and satire so cutting it can open wounds." On the other hand, Johnny Depp and A... | MORE »

• December 22, 2:40 PM EDT

  The God-Awful 'Little Fockers,' Triumphant 'True Grit,' and the Greatest Roles of Jeff Bridges' Career By Peter Travers

  

  "Do you really wanna see Little Fockers?" Peter Travers asks in this week's At the Movies video. "My fear is that you do." True Grit, he tells us, is what you need to see over the holidays instead. There are a lot of things to like about Grit — including star Jeff Bridges, who, Travers writes in his review, is "killer good at playing the hell out of double-tough Rooster." To honor Bridges and his latest remarkable role, Travers gives us a special treat this week: A ranking of t... | MORE »

• December 16, 7:30 PM EDT

  Peter Travers: 'Tron: Legacy' Triumphs Despite Storyline By Peter Travers

  

  The original Tron — which came out in 1982 — may not have aged very well, but Peter Travers credits the film for its groundbreaking concept and also has kind words for the sequel, Tron: Legacy. The new film finds star Jeff Bridges still trapped inside a server, where he meets not only the avatar of his younger self but his son (played by Garrett Hedlund). Despite some occasional confusion over what's happening in the film's plot, Travers gives Tron: Legacy high mar... | MORE »

• December 15, 6:50 PM EDT

  'The Tourist': Most Laughable of the Golden Globe Noms By Peter Travers

  

  I'm still laughing at yesterday's Golden Globe nominations. The Tourist, an astoundingly lame thriller, is up for Best Movie — Comedy or Musical. Really? Really! OK, The Tourist is hilarious, but the laughs are ALL unintentional. And Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie getting acting nods for the suckfest performances of their respective careers. It's it's ... delicious. Peter Travers' Best (and Worst) DVDs of 2010 I adore it when the Hollywood Foreign Press goes a... | MORE »

• December 9, 5:05 PM EDT

  Peter Travers Predicts Oscars for 'The Fighter' By Peter Travers

  

  This week Peter Travers brings back his infamous "scumbucket" category — at the request of Kirsten Dunst, who told Travers when he ran into her earlier this week that she misses it — and, to his own surprise, putting the new Johnny Depp/Angelina Jolie vehicle The Tourist into it. In the film, Depp's character travels to Venice to get over a broken heart and hooks up with Jolie, who leads him into intrigue and ... | MORE »

• December 9, 11:05 AM EDT

  Peter Travers' Best (and Worst) DVD and Blu-ray Movies of 2010 By Rolling Stone

  

  Picking the top 10 DVD/Blu-ray movies of 2010 is a lot different than picking the top 10 movies of the year. I'm not saying artistic quality doesn't matter on DVD. What I am saying is that the quality of the DVD image and digital sound counts just as much as the quality of the film. I'm looking for the WOW factor — DVD movies that rock the house, whether you're watching them on a high-end home theater system or on your computer screen. And it's not all showboati... | MORE »

• December 2, 6:00 PM EDT

  Peter Travers: 'Black Swan' Is a Fabulous Fever Dream By Rolling Stone

  

  December is off to a fabulous start with Black Swan , starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, says Peter Travers. The film — which Travers calls one of the best of the year — features Portman as a ballet dancer pitted against Kunis for the dual role of the white and black swans in a production of Swan Lake. Portman's natural character is more in line with the innocent White Swan, but her co... | MORE »

• November 24, 1:40 AM EDT

  Peter Travers: 'The King's Speech' Is One of the Year's Best By Rolling Stone

  

  Peter Travers heaps praise on The King's Speech, starring Colin Firth as King George VI, the man who unexpectedly became king in 1936 after his brother abdicated to marry an American woman. He must overcome his stutter with the help of an eccentric speech therapist, and the result is "one of the very best movies of the year" that "will be nominated for a billion Oscars." But it's also Thanksgiving week, and Peter Travers points out that Hollywood has ... | MORE »

• November 18, 2:16 AM EDT

  Peter Travers: New 'Harry Potter' a Tease By Rolling Stone

  Hell hath no fury like a betrayed Harry Potter fan, and that's exactly how Peter Travers seems to feel about the first part of the final film in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The movie features plenty of the elements that have made the franchise one of the most lucrative in film history — but not enough. In this video, Travers lays out exactly why he feels the film is "a tease to get us to Part II." Still, there are a few highligh... | MORE »

• November 15, 5:59 AM EDT

  Holiday Movie Guide: Top Ten Popcorn Flicks By Rolling Stone

  

  What's a holiday movie? Something about Santa or getting wasted on New Year's Eve? Nah. My loose interpretation is that behind every choice holiday movie is a voice singing, "Forget your troubles. Come on, get happy!" These babies are designed to lift sprits, not bring them down. Oscar intentions are allowed (True Grit, The Fighter), but they better come wrapped in a pretty package. Take Javier Bardem in Biutiful: He's amazing as a dirt-poor father with a terminal illness and a... | MORE »