A terrific concert film that's often hampered by interludes with Dane DeHaan.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 17, 2021

The sound is stellar and Antal's cinematography gives the audience the ultimate you-are-there experience but in the end the narrative gets in the way of the stage presentation.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

Works best as a Metallica concert film, less so as a dystopian nightmare where Metallica fans battle cops and horse demons in the streets.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 8, 2020

Metallica: Through the Never- three-quarters-concert film, one-quarter-disaster epic-is the most fun I've had at the movies this year.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 14, 2016

For a loyal fan, this is something of a godsend.

| Original Score: B | Jun 23, 2016

Giddily preposterous.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 15, 2016

Two films wrangling for dominance and neither finding the purchase necessary to succeed.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 15, 2013

If Through the Never's attempts at creating a story-and-performance hybrid are only partially successful...its concert footage remains its prime selling point and strength.

| Oct 14, 2013

Metallica fans may find the concert footage of this worshipful semi-documentary worthwhile.

| Oct 11, 2013

Incorporating props, visual effects, lasers and pyro in eye-popping fashion, it eventually starts to seem like an enormous 3D version of a backdrop from Guitar Hero.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2013

Solely for hardcore Metallica fans, a 3D spectacular, immersive thrash metal music experience

| Oct 6, 2013

Metallica Through the Never succeeds as an enthralling and visceral concert movie experience but fails to use the medium for a deeper level of artistic appreciation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2013

"Metallica Through the Never" is an experience best seen and heard in IMAX. It will blow you away.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 4, 2013

Awesome.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2013

A bold attempt to pimp a Metallica concert film falls short of initial promise.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2013

An exhilarating and immersive Metallica concert film twinned with a dark, trippy narrative following a roadie named Trip who pops a pill and goes on a mission to find a mysterious package.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2013

This is a lame shaggy-dog narrative, and there's no one to blame but Metallica, who authorised Through the Never and take producing and writing credits.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2013

Even as someone who finds Metallica's music silly (ditto the movie's incoherent apocalyptic fantasy sequences), I was floored by much of the visual imagination.

| Oct 3, 2013

Watch Some Kind Of Monster instead.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2013

It's all very appropriately overblown, and director Antal gives the fireworks as much attention as he does each performer.

| Oct 1, 2013