Metallica: Some Kind of MonsterMetallica drummer Lars Ulrich may rue the day he agreed to appear in this documentary, which chronicles the band's notorious in-fighting and therapy sessions as they recorded the St. Anger album, but Berlinger and Sinofsky's 2004 film is a still-compelling record of a particularly fractious time in the band's history.
Phil Towle, a $40,000 a month group therapist, is recruited to sort out the band's (high and low) self-esteem issues but ends up developing a few unhealthy co-dependencies of his own.
"Documentarians Berlinger and Sinofsky (Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills) capture every cheap shot and creative clash. The movie also smartly engenders discussion about growing up, having a family and balancing your life after nearly two decades of screwing around on the road, extreme narcissism and drinking everything in sight." Austin Chronicle
