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07/26/07
Punk's Not Dead (2007)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:18
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: On the edge of the 30th anniversary of punk rock, Punk's Not Dead takes you into the sweaty underground clubs, backyard parties, recording studios, and yes, shopping malls and stadium shows where... [More]
Director: Susan Dynner
Reviews for Punk's Not Dead
Top CriticPunk's Not Dead is more than a nostalgia trip. Rather than just capturing what punk sounds like, Dynner shows us what it feels like, what punk really means -- present tense.
07/24/09
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04/23/09
Filmmaker Susan Dynner finally turns in the punk music documentary we all deserve, and one that punks can finally relate to.
08/14/08
Even the title sounds like a hardheaded comeback to a proclamation nobody made.
10/19/07
Dynner delights in presenting a wealth of contrasting testimonies, and has no intention of delivering a judgment on any of it.
10/18/07
It could've used a little more clarity and context, but, then, that's not very punk, is it?
09/07/07
A documentary for the thinking mosher.
08/30/07
Susan Dynner's documentary about the past 30 years of punk music doesn't exactly break any new ground. But it does offer an entertaining overview that is leavened with humorous philosophical digressions.
08/10/07
Top CriticDirector Susan Dynner’s documentary Punk’s Not Dead is an ambitious documentary that seeks out to portray exactly the idea expressed in its title.
08/06/07
It's a hell of an accomplishment to make a kinetic, hard-driving and visually arresting talking-heads documentary.
07/30/07
Poor punk. Such a bundle of complexes, most of them encapsulated in the needlessly defensive title of Susan Dynner's documentary Punk's Not Dead.
07/27/07
Top CriticThe movie covers a lot of time and territory, and some of its questions are great ones. (The biggest, for true punks: Is getting a big record deal a sign of ultimate success, or final defeat?)
07/27/07
Punk might not be dead, but it sure has seen better days.
07/27/07
About as in-your-face and raggedy as its subject, Dynner's film is really less of a history than a psychological profile, rooting around for the meat of what makes punk so resilient, cross-generational and communal.
07/26/07
Top Critic[It's] a documentary that's more about the enduring lifestyle of basement shows, crust-punk houses, and aging rebels than the music. And that can be fascinating stuff.
07/24/07
Punk's Not Dead serves as a diehard's scrapbook of three decades of living punk, not a eulogy for an extinct underground retrofitted as a fashion trend.
07/23/07
Top CriticThis film has an absolutely stellar cast of interviewees, so if you like punk music you’ll be in hog heaven watching it, I guarantee you.
07/10/07
Whether you’re a kid with a fresh coat of shellac on your Mohawk or an aging hipster still clinging to the Johnny Rotten school of snot, it’s a film that enlightens the debate and demonstrates without a doubt that when punk disappears, it never truly dies
07/10/07
Punk's Not Dead is a documentary of immense personality and information...a film that enlightens the debate and demonstrates without a doubt that when punk disappears, it never truly dies.
07/05/07
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