Back to Black

Name: Back to Black
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: May 17, 2024
Rating: 43
Cast: Ansu Kabia, Bronson Webb, Colin Mace, Eddie Marsan, Harley Bird

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Focus Features | Release Date: May 17, 2024

Starring: Ansu Kabia, Bronson Webb, Colin Mace, Eddie Marsan, Harley Bird, Jack O'Connell, Lesley Manville, Marisa Abela, Pierre Bergman, Ryan O'Doherty, Sam Buchanan

Summary: The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black. Told from Amy’s perspective and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film follows the remarkable woman behind the phenomenon and the tumultuous relationship at the center of one of the most legendary albums of allThe extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black. Told from Amy’s perspective and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film follows the remarkable woman behind the phenomenon and the tumultuous relationship at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.… Expand

Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson

Genre(s): Biography, Drama

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Kyle Smith

May 17, 2024

The film is detailed, vivid, enthralling—and necessarily full of pain. The performances are top-notch, led by Ms. Abela, who does her own singing in an amazing re-creation of Winehouse’s muscular soul vocals. Read full review

Ed Masley

May 15, 2024

It glosses over any number of defining Winehouse moments. In the end, though, you do get a sense of who she was and why she was the way she was, and how that drove her to create such deeply soulful music. Read full review

Francisca Tinoco

Apr 15, 2024

There's a lot of compassion in 'Back to Black' for its troubled subject, but its best intentions become its worse mistakes when it fails to direct any semblance of a critical look at the multiple tragic events in Amy Winehouse's too-short life. Read full review

IndieWire Vikram Murthi

Apr 10, 2024

The palpable sincerity behind “Back to Black” almost makes its myriad weaknesses more glaring. Everyone involved in the film approaches the late artist with love and respect, but its tawdry instincts and misguided sense of responsibility let her memory down. Read full review

Richard Lawson

May 15, 2024

A movie like this—about such a fiery, singular person—should not play like mere misty elegy, a brief recounting of happy memories and sad ones that amounts to a sentimental sketch of an artist. Where is the whir of the world as Winehouse saw it, the matrix of pleasure and heartbreak that so fascinated her? Where is the Winehouse who, in the full glare of her being, ought to be remembered? Read full review

Lindsey Bahr

May 15, 2024

Was it attempting a freewheeling jazz form, or is it just messy? Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peyton Robinson

May 17, 2024

Taylor-Johnson’s film, penned by Matt Greenhalgh, is concerned with Amy the addict, making “Back to Black” a dreadful, dastardly attempt at a biopic. Read full review

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