Back to Black review – woozy Amy Winehouse biopic buoyed by extraordinary lead performance
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Sam Taylor-Johnson’s best film to date is more interested in romance and creativity than demons or blame‘Her demons were probably worse’: does Back to Black reveal the real Amy Winehouse?The last time Sam Taylor-Johnson directed a movie about drugs it was A Million Little Pieces in 2019, based on James Frey’s notoriously inauthentic memoir of addiction – and the last time she made a film about a music legend it was Nowhere Boy in 2009, about John Lennon.Now she brings the two together in what’s...

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