Rating: 2.5/4 -- Its cast of characters is colorful (literally, in the case of Captain Sensible, known for his pink shag-rug jackets) and its access is impressive ('Our single biggest issue is people throwing pints onstage' the band's tour manager complains). Full Review

Rating: B+ -- Finally there exists a beautiful top-to-bottom documentary about the incendiary rock 'n' roll band that recorded the first Punk single ("New Rose") in 1976, and went on to keep reinventing themselves five decades over. Full Review

Blistering, hilarious, and terrifically neat, neat, neat. Full Review

The U.K.'s oldest extant punk band gets a suitably entertaining, fractious documentary tribute. Full Review

The film also captures the ups and downs of the band that sometimes felt like they were cursed. Full Review

Rating: 8/10 -- A thorough, even-handed look back at [the] history, cultural significance and the colorful, clashing personalities within the seminal punk band. Full Review

The NY-based Orshoski does a good job outlining the UK punk scene for US audiences; along the way, perhaps inadvertently, he helps illustrate just how out of step with their contemporaries The Damned's larks were. Full Review