Anvil! The Story of Anvil Critic Reviews

Anvil lives somewhere in that thoroughly entertaining gray area between self-parody and the triumph of human spirit.Read the full review

It's a hilarious, and unexpectedly moving, documentary about the greatest metal band you've probably never heard of.Read the full review

Yet in his despair, there's something Kudlow misses, and it's what makes Anvil! as moving as it is hilarious.Read the full review

Anvil! is one of the sweetest, funniest films I've seen this year. Also the loudest and most foulmouthed.Read the full review

Neil Young once said: It's better to burn out than it is to rust. But moviegoers are lucky Anvil didn't take Young's advice. Who knew heavy metal could seem like fine art when it rusts?Read the full review

Want to find the heart of rock & roll? You can hear it thundering in Anvil.Read the full review

The director, Sacha Gervasi, is a fan first and a documentarian second. If Anvil! has a flaw, it's that it's too enthusiastic, a reverently uncritical valentine to the director's adolescent heroes.Read the full review

Well-shot and edited, Anvil! is an underdog saga even non-metalheads will root for. It tows that fine line between chuckling at its protags' somewhat absurd situation and celebrating their sheer unwillingness to give up.Read the full review

You may never have expected to see the words heavy metal, endearing and warmhearted in the same sentence, but you just did.Read the full review