Peter Travers is an American film critic and journalist for the Rolling Stone Magazine. Travers often places controversial movies or films that speak out about America's bad behavior on his top ten list. Some of the contemporary directors he is most receptive to based on ratings and placement in top ten lists include David Lynch, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Clint Eastwood. He has shown a great deal of disdain for certain directors, most notably Michael Bay and his films. Peter Travers writes towards a large audience base of the general public, to influence them whether a movie was good and worth watching or not. Peter Travers's movie reviews range from LGBT film favorite "Love Simon" to psychological thriller "Unsane" to cover a variety of movies that the public will want to watch, so that all genres are included.