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Metallica Through the Never

Picturehouse Entertainment
What it's about:

This music-driven feature film combines a bold narrative and spectacular live performance footage of one of the most popular and influential rock bands in history, to produce a bracing, raw and visceral cinematic experience.

Emerging young star Dane DeHaan portrays Trip, a young roadie sent on an urgent mission during Metallica’s roaring live set in front of a sold-out arena.

What critics say:

"Through the Never succeeds as a concert film by serving up enough dazzling visual wizardry and good ol' thrash metal rock to make it a passably engaging experience."
- Bruce Demara, Toronto Star

"If half an hour of bizarro side-narrative fever dream is the price of admission for a gorgeously lensed, best-seat-in-the-house hour of chugging rock brutality, I'll pay gladly."
- Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Lets viewers feel like they're sliding up and down the fretboard of Kirk Hammett's guitar, volleying between the cymbals of Lars Ulrich and swallowing spit spewed by singer James Hetfield."
 - Jim Farber, New York Daily News

"Despite swooping camera movements and elaborate stagecraft, the film produces detachment rather than immediacy."
- A.O. Scott, New York Times
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