GamesRadar+ Verdict
A competent if occasionally clunky biopic, enlivened by a superb Marisa Abela, who truly inhabits Winehouse and brings those songs to life.
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“I want to be remembered for being a singer,” intones Amy Winehouse (Industrys Marisa Abela) early on in director Sam Taylor-Johnsons biopic of the iconic London singer.
Its a noble sentiment, especially given Winehouses tabloid-created infamy: her struggles with drink and drugs were regularly splashed across the front pages in the lead up to her untimely death aged 27 in 2011.
Tapping into Winehouses volatile, no-nonsense personality, the film only truly hits its stride when she meets Blake Fielder-Civil (a cocksure Jack OConnell), the man who becomes her husband and joins her in a haze of substance abuse as her fame hits levels of near-hysteria.
Sadly, Winehouses switch from being anti-drugs to a regular user isnt captured with particular finesse; Taylor-Johnson largely holds back on conveying the grimier aspects of the singers decline.
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