I absolutely loved Amy Winehouse, I can't count the amount of times I played Back to Black in the day. Massive fan so I was going to see this regardless.
It's not one of the better music biopics out there, it has some of the same cliches of how the artist/performer told off the record label and stood by their vision, etc. The Queen movie was really bad with that cheesy stuff and this is no different. The actress playing Amy had an incredibly tough assignment, but she was very good when you consider how completely unique Amy was. I wish we could have got another album from her, but more importantly it's incredibly sad she didn't survive her addictions and depression. So much talent and such a huge loss.
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