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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Overkill to anyone who never flashed the group's devil horns salute. Read more
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: A counterintuitive, riveting documentary so honest that it will either become a rock movie classic or a severe embarrassment for the heavy metal band. Read more
Neva Chonin, San Francisco Chronicle: Transcends the rockumentary genre and becomes something uniquely its own. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... a brilliant film. Read more
Michael Senft, Arizona Republic: An unflinching and often hilarious look at the humanity of these heavy-metal gods. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: [An] overlong but startling heavy metal-therapy documentary. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: It's head-banging entertainment from start to finish. Read more
Ricardo Baca, Denver Post: It's great emotional fodder for old-school Metallica fans and smart, tugging drama for people unfamiliar with the band. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: What ties each moment together is the fascinating and emotional tale of rock and its heroes growing up yet trying, against the odds, to stay genuine. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: No rock doc has burrowed so deeply into the bruised egos, arrested development and internal conflict that make up a superstar band. Read more
Greg Burk, L.A. Weekly: Puts you eye to human eye with struggling creatures neither fully god nor fully beast. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: There's an almost soap-opera aspect to the story, about people with deep affection for each other, but also 20 years of hard history and a candidness one can't help but respect. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Berlinger and Sinofsky are very good at both capturing the specifics of these men's quarrels and making them universal. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Great theater. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: The filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky turn what might have been a conventional behind-the-scenes rockumentary into a riveting, intricate psychodrama. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: If you're a fan, you will almost certainly be touched by this effort to put an entire dysfunctional band on the couch. And if you're not, well, you're going to giggle. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster 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. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: To go through with this film took guts, honesty and even a kind of nobility -- and all of us who are fascinated by the unsolvable quandaries of pop culture owe the band for that. Read more
Chris Riemenschneider, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Fans of the band will love the revealing footage, especially landmark moments such as bassist auditions (more famous names showed up than the one they picked) and encounters with the ex-Metallica members (Newsted and Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine). Read more
James Adams, Globe and Mail: It's less rockumentary and more exploration of, and meditation on long-term relationships, creativity and maturity, the value of the 'talking cure' and the quest for personal authenticity in a matrix of family demands, peer pressure and corporate greed. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Berlinger and Sinofsky manage something remarkable: They connect us to the actual people who comprise Metallica, the former working- and middle-class California kids who have now spent half their lives rich and famous. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Even if you're not a fan of their music, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster is a revelation: funny, fascinating and insightful. Read more
Dennis Harvey, Variety: One needn't be a fan of Metallica or heavy metal to be engrossed throughout. Read more
Chuck Eddy, Village Voice: A two-and-a-half-hour puff piece about how 'important' Metallica are and, worse, how much 'integrity' they have. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Serious, funny, frustrating and touching. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Absorbing, funny, exhilaratingly entertaining. Read more