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Anvil! The Story of Anvil

2008

Sacha Gervasi

Documentary

7.6

3,024

Documentary At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal, " influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax, despite never hitting the big time. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dreams.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Want to find the heart of rock & roll? You can hear it thundering in Anvil (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Sam Toy Empire	"The lyrics to AC/DC’s 'Long Way To The Top' were never more appropriate. Anvil! is exactly what’s needed to slap the recent rash of doomsayer documentaries in the face — preferably with a studded, fingerless leather glove. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"[It is] immensely entertaining, and its nostalgia for an era of big crowds and bigger hair has a pleasing tenderness"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A charming, touching and very funny film (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"'Anvil! The Story of Anvil' is a real-life "Spinal Tap," minus the mockery (...) it's an affectionate portrait of performers starving for applause, achingly funny as only real life can be"	POS

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