The only two kids who care about heavy metal in their high school want to form a heavy metal band but fail to find a bass player. They do, however, find a girl adept at cello. If these three can settle their differences, work together, and stay out of trouble, they could win the upcoming Battle of the Bands.... (Full plot summary below)
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The only two kids who care about heavy metal in their high school want to form a heavy metal band but fail to find a bass player. They do, however, find a girl adept at cello. If these three can settle their differences, work together, and stay out of trouble, they could win the upcoming Battle of the Bands.
Leave your thoughts about Metal Lords.
| Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattThe story belongs to its young cast, and Lords' ramshackle comedy sweetly captures the rank anxiety, random humiliations, and undiluted hope of being young. |
| RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsThe film may be cinematic comfort food, but its creators do earn our trust and nail all the essential beats they need to along the way. |
| San Francisco ChronicleRobert MorastWhile the movie can play like one big valentine to an adolescent’s adoration of metal music culture, it also nails the most important aspect of metal music in a teen’s life: how it can provide a sense of power to misfits who often feel like they have none. |
| The PlaylistAsher LubertoIt’s a sweetly funny, damning, and poignant depiction of this very specific time in life–at once angsty and lovely–when anything is possible. And it has a killer soundtrack to boot. |
| The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanConventional but genuine, Metal Lords comprehends the riot of adolescent emotions and the many ways teenagers manage them. |
| ConsequenceAl ShipleyMetal Lords, though it hits some nice high notes, never quite grabs you like the best coming-of-age movies thanks to Peter Sollett’s flat, uninspired direction. |
| Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonA romance, bromance and good-natured send-up of teenage obsession. |
| Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganWhile the film’s premise is appealing enough in its coming-of-age charm, the central characters themselves are intensely grating. |
| IndieWireDavid EhrlichMetal Lords may never find the rhythm a movie like this needs in order to stay in the sweet spot between goofy and charming, but there’s a stubborn kernel of truth to how casually its young characters learn to hear themselves by listening to Judas Priest. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayMetal Lords traffics way too much in teen movie clichés; but whenever it sticks to the music and the relationships between its core trio of weirdoes, it’s genuinely affecting. |
