A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.
Plenty of folks praise Winehouse in "Amy." But no one was there to save her. Perhaps it wasn't possible. But perhaps it was.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
10 Jul 2015
fresh:
It's Amy's words, her music, her voicemails, her home videos, her friends, her family, her tormentors, and her timeless incandescence. Look, listen and weep.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
10 Jul 2015
fresh:
A mesmerizing yet devastating look at a singular talent.
– Christy Lemire,
ChristyLemire.com,
10 Jul 2015
fresh:
A powerful, and powerfully sad, experience.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
10 Jul 2015
rotten:
There are a couple of scenes in Asif Kapadia's new Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, that make the fame-industrial complex seem rock-bottom awful.