David Lamble Bay Area Reporter May 21, 2020

The deftly-paced doc goes from sweaty, shirtless boys in 70s video replays to today's kid musicians blowing off steam playing dodgeball.

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Mike Scott Times-Picayune Jul 24, 2009 3/4

Punk'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.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid Aug 14, 2008

Filmmaker Susan Dynner finally turns in the punk music documentary we all deserve, and one that punks can finally relate to.

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Ted Fry Seattle Times Oct 19, 2007 2.5/4

Even the title sounds like a hardheaded comeback to a proclamation nobody made.

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Bill White Seattle Post-Intelligencer Oct 18, 2007 B

Dynner delights in presenting a wealth of contrasting testimonies, and has no intention of delivering a judgment on any of it.

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Phil Villarreal Arizona Daily Star Aug 30, 2007 3/4

A documentary for the thinking mosher.

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Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter Aug 10, 2007

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.

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Ryan Cooper About.com Aug 6, 2007 4/5

Director Susan Dynner's documentary Punk's Not Dead is an ambitious documentary that seeks out to portray exactly the idea expressed in its title.

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Frank Lovece Film Journal International Jul 30, 2007

It's a hell of an accomplishment to make a kinetic, hard-driving and visually arresting talking-heads documentary.

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Neil Genzlinger New York Times Jul 27, 2007 2.5/5

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.

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Edward Havens FilmJerk.com Jul 27, 2007 B

Punk might not be dead, but it sure has seen better days.

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John Anderson Los Angeles Times Jul 26, 2007

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.

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David Fear Time Out Jul 26, 2007 3/6

Play this movie loud. Really loud.

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Camille Dodero Village Voice Jul 24, 2007

[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.

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Bill Stamets Chicago Sun-Times Jul 23, 2007 3/4

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.

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Graham Rae Film Threat Jul 10, 2007

This 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.

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Brian Orndorf eFilmCritic.com Jul 5, 2007 B+

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.

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Ty Burr Boston Globe Apr 26, 2007 3/4

Structured very loosely along chronological lines, Punk's Not Dead takes core samples from musical forefathers, mid-period bands, and snotty young kids, building a jangly, contradictory mosaic as it goes.

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Richard Kuipers Variety Jun 24, 2006

Pacy, broad-based overview of the punk rock scene from 1977 to present packages a who's who of luminaries and rare performance clips into a vibrant proof-of-life statement underpinned by keen analysis of sociopolitical issues.

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