Back to Black
Focus Features | Release Date: May 17, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 45 Critic Reviews
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10
Mixed:
22
Negative:
13
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38
The Associated PressLindsey BahrMay 15, 2024
Was it attempting a freewheeling jazz form, or is it just messy? Read full review
38
Slant MagazineRoss McIndoeApr 13, 2024
The film presents Amy Winehouse’s demise with a sad shrug, as one of those tragic things that just sort of happens. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyMaureen Lee LenkerMay 17, 2024
There’s no desire to interrogate her artistry or to grant a portrait of what made her tick. In this rendering, Winehouse is made up purely of audacity, vocal theatrics, and addiction-fueled behavior. When it comes to this surface-level exploitation of Amy Winehouse’s life, just say no, no, no. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubBrogan MorrisMay 15, 2024
No film is “too soon” if it can excavate deeper truths or find a fresh angle on a familiar story. But Back To Black does neither. Read full review
30
Rolling StoneDavid FearMay 15, 2024
The movie may be so scared of being an Auto-Tuned biopic that it settles for simply being out of tune altogether. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiMay 16, 2024
As expected, director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s woeful film “Back to Black” doesn’t play as the gripping battle of musical genius vs. personal demons it fancies itself to be. Instead it’s all sadness, songs and sensationalism. Read full review
25
ObserverLaura BabiakMay 15, 2024
More visualized Wikipedia article than movie, Back to Black covers a wide swath of Amy Winehouse’s life and career without any real depth. Read full review
20
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonJun 6, 2024
That a movie messes with the historical record a little doesn’t automatically make it bad. But in Back to Black the omissions feel downright weird, as if something is being ignored. Read full review
20
ColliderEmma KielyMay 17, 2024
The creatively (and morally) bankrupt and downright offensive biopic glosses over Amy Winehouse’s complicated, and ultimately, tragic life to shine a more flattering light on her father and ex-husband, distorting the real-life events in her life to tell its own narrative. Read full review
20
VoxKyndall CunninghamMay 17, 2024
With all of its missteps and murky intentions, Back to Black might just be the tipping point in a prevalent conversation about the function of musical biopics and what we should demand from them. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreMay 16, 2024
It’s a film about Amy Winehouse that just doesn’t care for Amy Winehouse much, as an artist or as a person. Read full review
20
Little White LiesRogan GrahamApr 9, 2024
As much as the party line insists this film is a celebration of Amy’s musical genius, it is as salacious and cruel as any tabloid cutting from the noughties – only invested in the bloody ballet pump left in the street, not the complexities of living a very public life with addiction. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonMay 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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