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Name: Back to Black
Released: 2024-5-17
Cast: Marisa Abela, Jack O'Connell, Eddie Marsan, Lesley Manville

Back to Black

R
2h 3m
2024

38%

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The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse's (Marisa Abela) early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black, that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy's eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.

Director:

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Producer:

Alison Owen, Debra Hayward, Nicky Kentish Barnes

Writer:

Matt Greenhalgh

Cast:

Marisa Abela, Jack O'Connell, Eddie Marsan, Lesley Manville

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

38%

Critics Consensus: Back to Black's sympathetic approach to its subject's story is an overdue antidote to the tabloid treatment she often received in life, even if the end results are disappointingly pedestrian.

Reviews

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Neil Pond

Reminds us of the spectacular talent of a singer who literally drank herself to death at age 27, in 2011, but often soft-pedals over the wrenching traumas of drug addiction and Winehouse’s other deep-rooted demons.

“Back to Black” is far from the first biopic that smooths the edges off real people for the Hollywood treatment. But because the movie’s stated aim is to re-center Amy in her own story, it feels gross.

It's in obvious awe of its subject and of her struggles, but fails to create a film as dynamic, and multi-layered, as edgy or as iconoclastic as Amy herself. Damn.

I’m sure this relationship was very important to her but shouldn’t we learn something here about her music?

It’s a point made without a hint of irony, the film making minimal effort to understand Amy Winehouse while carrying out what would seem its primary purpose: Treating a late, great musician as a property to exploit.

May 15, 2024

FULL REVIEW

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Genre:Drama
Release Date:May 17, 2024

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