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Releasing on May 17, 2024
  • 2024
  • R
  • Focus Features
  • 2 h 2 m
  • 2024
  • R
  • Focus Features
  • 2 h 2 m

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 a...

Directed By: Sam Taylor-Johnson

Written By: Matt Greenhalgh

  • 2024
  • R
  • Focus Features
  • 2 h 2 m
  • 2024
  • R
  • Focus Features
  • 2 h 2 m

Back to Black

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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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 a...

Directed By: Sam Taylor-Johnson

Written By: Matt Greenhalgh

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Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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11% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
49
17% Positive
3 Reviews
72% Mixed
13 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews

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Apr 9, 2024
This film was always going to face accusations of being exploitative – given the way Winehouse was scrutinised when she was alive – but the naysayers needn’t have worried. Taylor-Johnson’s film (particularly the ending) is impressively deft and delicate.
By Nick Levine FULL REVIEW
60
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.
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60
Apr 9, 2024
By concentrating on the relationship, the road they’ve taken here is too narrow, but I’m sympathetic to the problem: sharpening your focus always gives biopics more lift-off than vaguely trying to cram everything in.
By Tim Robey FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 9, 2024
In Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Back To Black, Winehouse’s brief, brilliant life is essentially pared down to a tale of poisoned romance.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
42
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.
By Vikram Murthi FULL REVIEW
40
Apr 9, 2024
A solid performance let down by a script that cherry-picks the facts and ultimately tells us less than we already know. Watch Asif Kapadia’s Amy instead.
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Apr 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.
By Rogan Graham FULL REVIEW

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Production Company StudioCanal UK, Monumental Pictures, Canal+, Cine+, M6, W9
Release Date May 17, 2024
Duration 2 h 2 m
Rating R
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Tagline Her music. Her life. Her legacy.
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