Anvil! The Story of Anvil

Headbanging at Windmills Once More

You have to wonder about a movie called “Anvil! The Story of Anvil.” Is the redundancy in the title self-mocking or just bluntly declarative? It’s a question that lingers around the movie itself, which is either an affectionate chronicle of a Canadian heavy metal band that never quite made it or else a deadpan mockery of the same band.
Or maybe both. Or neither. After a recent screening in Manhattan, two of my colleagues and I spent about 20 minutes on the sidewalk arguing about whether the film was a documentary at all. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (4294 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 10 Aprile 2009