Atom User Reviews for Back to Black
Ain't no spice girl movie.
SO Talented sad life of addiction 27 to young to leave us. May she rest in peace
I liked the movie! It was a good date night by myself
I really enjoyed the movie. As a big Amy Winehouse fan, I felt it answered a few questions I had about certain parts of her life. Well done!!!
great portrayal of Amy Winehouse and her family! great musical performances too!
Metacritic
Back to Black is essentially a gentle, forgiving film and there are other, tougher, bleaker ways to put Winehouse’s life on screen – but Abela conveys her tenderness, and perhaps most poignantly of all her youth, so tellingly at odds with that tough image and eerily mature voice.
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.
At its best, Back to Black, the forthright and compelling movie that’s been made of Winehouse’s life, takes that light/dark balance and digs into the drama of it, making it sing.
