Eileen Yaghoobian's fabulous debut doc is an inclusive look at the renaissance of poster art in the wake of punk and the rebirth of a defiant counterculture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2013

This is a mildly interesting documentary that takes at face value the claims made for their art by the naive nihilists who design jagged, violent and often obscene posters for local rock groups across North America.

| May 24, 2013

Whenever the quaint, binary idea of a scrappy counterculture vs. The Man overshadows the personalities, craft, and musical context, the movie's an Adbusters bore.

| Jul 6, 2010

Concentrated in such alterna-scenes as Boston, Austin, and Seattle, this repulsive bunch [of poster artists] exude more counter-culture geek clichs than Comic Book Guy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 6, 2010

Eileen Yaghoobian's documentary presents a lot of good art and entertaining personalities in a package that's diverting on a moment-to-moment basis, but lacks any organizing principal or precise point to make the whole cohere.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

Died Young is an entertaining film with sharp cultural observations that even dares to examine the collective American psychoses.

Full Review | Jan 28, 2010

Are these cultural artifacts or just more trash littering the light posts and bulletin boards of your city? That all depends on the eye of the beholder.

| Nov 30, 2009

It's a visually stunning film, even if the subject matter isn't hugely compelling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 30, 2009

What a cool, unexpected kick this film was.

| Nov 30, 2009

It soon becomes apparent that there's no real structure or point of view to it all.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2009

The poster makers... mine the outer limits of violence and misogyny with a garish, pop art palette.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2009

Suffer the perverse undertones and this is a fitting examination of a significant yet overlooked contemporary art form.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2009

The film reminds us of a tactile, cut-and-paste subculture that's still alive and well in the internet age.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2009

The equivalent of being trapped in the lift of an east London style magazine while the entire staff simultaneously shout their theories of civilisation at you, this documentary is that tragic thing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 16, 2009

A decent concept but ultimately a bit messy and unfocussed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2009

The lack of narrative direction, exploitable drama or character growth strands the film at the level of an animated picture-book accompanied by lots of gratuitous whining.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2009

A worthwhile doc about an unreported arm of the alt-rock industry.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2009

Hampered by its director's pretentious, self-advertising style. Eileen Yaghoobian lacks any journalistic sense of the basic information the audience needs in order to grasp what's happening onscreen and the film is often confusing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 9, 2009

Eileen Yaghoobian's indulgent, cut-and-paste documentary hangs loose (and slightly awry) with the unsung titans of the concert poster.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2009

Weird, wacky and full of arresting promo images for bands like Arcade Fire, Teengenerate and Turbonegro.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2009