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45
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22
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Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
IFC Films
FILM:
MUSIC:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Kirk Hammett,
James Hetfield,
Dave Mustaine,
Jason Newsted,
Bob Rock,
Phil Towle,
Robert Trujillo, Lars Ulrich,
and
Torben Ulrich
Three years in the making, this documentary provides a fascinating, in-depth portrait of the most successful heavy metal band of all time, as they faced monumental personal and professional challenges while recording their first studio album of original songs in five years. (IFC Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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Musical
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Joe Berlinger
Bruce Sinofsky
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 25, 2005
Theatrical: July 9, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
130 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
One of the most revelatory rock portraits ever made.
100
Slate
David Edelstein
The band's implosion and reassembly makes for one of the most marvelous rock documentaries of all time.
100
Portland Oregonian
Karen Karbo
The miracle of Some Kind of Monster is Berlinger and Sinofsky's ability to make us root for these self-absorbed man-children.
90
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
That he (Hetfield), and his band, still lives is astonishing enough; that you get to see how and why in a movie so painfully intimate is nothing short of extraordinary.
90
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
You realize you are witnessing a psychodrama of novelistic intricacy and epic scope.
90
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
It's a measure of the film's brilliance that it strips away the trappings of superstardom and allows audiences to see these men as flawed human beings first, musicians second, and rock gods a distant third.
88
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
A counterintuitive, riveting documentary so honest that it will either become a rock movie classic or a severe embarrassment for the heavy metal band.
88
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
If you've seen the Beatles documentary "Let It Be," you know what four men who are heartily sick of one another look like, and in 2001, Metallica had been recording twice as long as the Fab Four.
80
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Absorbing, funny, exhilaratingly entertaining ride through two years in the life of the most successful heavy metal band in history.
80
Empire
Danny Graydon
An excruciating watch at times, the unflinching bluntness is captivating and somehow, despite their flaws, the group’s rock godhood is maintained.
80
Film Threat
Tim Merrill
The result will stand as one of the most intense, in-depth, warts-and-all rockumentaries ever made.
80
The Hollywood Reporter
Sura Wood
These are rich, aging men in a young man's game, and the discrepancy between image and reality, captured by the filmmakers, makes for engrossing material.
80
Time
Josh Tyrangiel
What's most captivating about Monster is that the camera never looks away and Metallica never hides.
80
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Pic itself is a long haul, at nearly 2½ hours; yet one needn't be a fan of Metallica or heavy metal to be engrossed throughout.
78
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Monster is, at its best, simply a chronicle of people trying to get along, which makes it compelling viewing indeed.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Doesn't require you to know anything about the band Metallica or heavy metal music, but it supplies a lot of information about various kinds of monsters.
75
Baltimore Sun
Rashod D. Ollison
You don't have to be a Metallica junkie to get this film.
75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Don't let anyone spoil the surprises of this thrashing, thrilling chunk of cinematic gold. It's one for the time capsule.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
Berlinger and Sinofsky, with their knack for penetrating the diabolical pretensions of weak and disaffected human beings, have brought Metallica to its knees.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Neva Chonin
Isn't about rock music or even the people who make it; it's about people, period, and the myriad ways they mangle themselves and each other.
75
USA Today
Claudia Puig
A revelation: funny, fascinating and insightful.
75
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Metallica brought back the rights and funded the project, and it's their honesty and willingness to front the cameras, warts and all, that makes this well-edited, often very funny, documentary so compelling.
70
LA Weekly
Greg Burk
Uncomfortable fun.
70
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Veers unpredictably between wrenching psychodrama and "Spinal Tap"-style mockumentary.
70
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
By turns exasperating, appalling and surprisingly empathetic -- sometimes all in the same moment -- the three members of Metallica quickly emerge as the main attractions in Some Kind of Monster, but not for the reasons you might expect.
70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Documentary about rock history's biggest heavy metal band is -- variously -- serious, funny, frustrating and touching.
63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
I'm no psychologist, but it took about half this film's overlong running time to figure out that Metallica's problem is that Ulrich is a major pain in the butt.
60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
No matter how you spin Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's chronicle of headbangers on the couch, it sounds like a pitch-perfect parody in "Beyond Spinal Tap" mode. If anything, knowing it's no joke makes it harder not to giggle.
60
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Snippets of the band's brutally percussive music punctuate the endless encounter sessions, which expose the musicians' boundless self-absorption (the 9-11 attacks come and go without so much as a mention) and cowed obedience to their psychological guru.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The quartet appears to be mightily lacking in the brains and judgment departments, but at least it tries to do something about its failings, employing a traveling psychotherapist whose interventions and ruminations provide some of the film's most unwittingly amusing moments.
40
Village Voice
Chuck Eddy
Much of Monster is just a two-and-a-half-hour puff piece about how "important" Metallica are and, worse, how much "integrity" they have.
20
Film Threat
Jim Agnew
Simply put this is a TWO HOUR AND 20 MINUTE long documentary that consists of nothing more than millionaire rock stars bitching, whining and complaining about their problems.
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