The Punk Singer

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.

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.

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.

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.