Snippets of the band’s brutally percussive music punctuate the endless encounter sessions, which expose the musicians’ boundless self-absorption...

| Jun 29, 2022

Raw docu shows band at a low point; frequent cursing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2017

A mostly terrific documentary about a mostly terrible album. Despite derisory poor-me whining, it captures fragility and fear in Metallica's questioned relevancy, considered disbandment and the closest things to tears they can muster for each other.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 19, 2010

An entertaining and penetrating look at the creative process

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 20, 2010

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 27, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster is a masterpiece of rock 'n roll documentary filmmaking, and has set the bar high for those who attempt it in the future.

| Original Score: A | Jun 21, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2005

Overlong, but interesting documentary of heavy metal band Metallica.

| Original Score: B | Feb 1, 2005

Probing study of dysfunctional heavy metal band

| Jan 27, 2005

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 13, 2005

A magnificent documentary! I talked about it for seven days afterwards.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 4, 2005

What the film lacks in music, it makes up for with emotional upheavals and conflict.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 17, 2004

It's hard for me to grok why Metallica is the most popular or the most hated heavy-metal band there ever was.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 19, 2004

Who else would give documentary filmmakers this kind of access to their lives? I'll tell you who: Anna Nicole Smith, and any of the has-beens from The Surreal Life.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 18, 2004

You don't need to be a Metallica fan to appreciate this well-done documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 9, 2004

Easier to like and admire than the album that spawned it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2004