What was most refreshing, though, was getting to see sides of Hanna's personality that aren't always immediately apparent from interviews and stage banter.

| Jun 14, 2021

In terms of providing a historical narrative of the Riot Grrl scene, The Punk Singer does an adequate, yet rushed job within an 80-minute film.

| Jan 15, 2021

What the "The Punk Singer" does best is capture the excitement, passion, and the conviction that is still evident on those records, and that you saw at those live shows.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 9, 2020

Hanna is shining symbol of feminist activism, ungodly perseverance, and artistic originality, and The Punk Singer captures her life and career to this point terrifically.

| Original Score: 8.3/10 | Apr 9, 2019

The Punk Singer is a rewarding and positive experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2019

Sini Anderson's The Punk Singer is all about music and politics: feminism and women, while focusing on one person, Kathleen Hanna, formerly of the bands Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and current front-woman of The Julie Ruin.

| Mar 14, 2019

The Punk Singer is a great documentary that should be recognized for its quality filmmaking and message.

| Nov 22, 2018

For an uncompromising and incendiary performer who commands your full attention, "The Punk Singer" gives Hanna the spotlight she deserves.

| Nov 22, 2018

While exciting for the sheer range of archival visual material it employs to tell Hanna's story, The Punk Singer is even more significant for capturing just how relevant the ideological pulse of Riot Grrrl is today.

| Aug 25, 2018

The Punk Singer is so much more than just a music doc. It is absolutely essential viewing for anyone interested in learning about the feminist pioneers who dared to stand up for themselves.

| Aug 9, 2017

The film, with its zine-like construction, is a whistle-stop tour of the fun stuff, of Hanna's highs, and above all, a personal portrait of one girl's ambition to create a space for herself in the front.

| Aug 1, 2017

It is a love letter to Kathleen Hanna, to feminism, and to the fans, but it's also just a damn good movie.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 9, 2017

This essential rock doc underscores how Bikini Kill gave voice to a group that had previously been ignored, particularly by male-dominated punk.

| Apr 26, 2017

A provocative story about resilience, the feminist movement, and how far we still have to go.

| Oct 7, 2016

Both a captivating personal story and a history of a moment - as the best rock documentaries are.

| Jun 21, 2016

The Punk Singer is as much a document of Kathleen Hanna's career as it is a public explanation for the truth behind her early retirement.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 21, 2016

The Punk Singer works ... as an eye-witness account of an important movement in feminist art; it's a film as vibrant and as vital as [Hanna's] music.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 18, 2014

This hagiographic ode to the quintessential 90s riot grrrl is by no means definitive, but there's a welcome rallying cry to all wannabe revolutionary rockers hidden within the bio-doc blather.

| Jun 6, 2014

...perhaps there is an inherent contradiction in attempting to capture a democratizing movement through an individual figure, as rocktastic and badass as that figure might be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2014

This blast from the past is strangely timely.

| May 30, 2014