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A member of the 27 Club, Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 after an award-winning career that is now immortalised by just two studio albums.<\/p>\n
Now her brief life is now the subject of a biopic named after her most famous record, one of the UK\u2019s best-selling albums of all time, Back to Black.<\/p>\n
Rising star Marisa Abela plays the late singer opposite Jack O\u2019Connell as her husband Blake Fielder-Civil in Sam Taylor-Johnson\u2019s biopic.<\/p>\n
Following last night\u2019s UK premiere, the critics are decidedly mixed in their reviews (4-1 stars), with the film receiving 53 per cent positive on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing.<\/p>\n
Check out their reactions below which largely praise the titular star\u2019s performance, but also point out the flaws in the movie itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Daily Mail Evening Standard Empire Total Film Digital Spy Daily Telegraph Not all the critics were so harsh, with some even giving Back to Black three or four stars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Metro The Guardian The Sun Variety NME Back to Black hits cinemas on April 12, 2024.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] A member of the 27 Club, Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 after an award-winning career that is now immortalised by just two studio albums. Now her brief life is now the subject of a biopic named after her most famous record, one of the UK\u2019s best-selling albums of all time, Back …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>All of the usual sins of biopics are committed here \u2013 only more so. We rush so quickly from Winehouse’s becardiganed early years to her mid-noughties pomp to her alcohol-induced demise that we barely get to know her and those around her.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>The final scene, in particular, with its completely and utterly baseless, sensationalist implications, made me physically gasp in horror.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>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\u2019s Amy instead.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>A competent if occasionally clunky biopic, enlivened by a superb Marisa Abela, who truly inhabits Winehouse and brings those songs to life.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Despite the efforts of Marisa Abela in a challenging role, it’s hard to know exactly who Back to Black ends up being for.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Because of the cautious gloss, the film is perhaps less enlightening or truly tragic than it might have been.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Back to Black is a sympathetic \u2013 if flawed \u2013 attempt to paint a picture of Winehouse in her own intoxicating chaos.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>There are other, tougher, bleaker ways to put Winehouse\u2019s life on screen \u2013 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.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>A Disney version of Amy\u2019s decline, but still a desperately sad lost love.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>The film\u2019s snaky on-and-off power begins with the British actor Marisa Abela, whose lead performance nails Amy Winehouse in every look, mood, utterance, and musical expression.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>It offers a welcome reminder of Winehouse\u2019s plucky spirit \u2013 something that often gets lost when her life is reduced to a hackneyed tale of talent and tragedy<\/p>\n