An interesting and challenging documentary that transcends the simplicity of music or entertainment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Accessing an enormous wealth of old videos from friends and family, self-read letters of lyrics and songwriting, archived phone calls, backstage footage, media appearances, and unreleased performances, "Amy" weaves a masterful and compelling narrative.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2022

One of the central tragedies dissected in Amy is that Winehouse loved two vile, reprehensible men -- her father and her husband -- to such a degree that she allowed them to continually use her and abuse her.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2021

Kapadia refuses to glamorize Winehouse's addiction as a casualty of rock 'n' roll or just another entry into the "27 Club."

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2021

Amy Winehouse's rapid rise and tragic fall is exquisitely told by her peers and with rare footage.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 23, 2021

The film effectively captures some of the ghastliness of the modern celebrity racket.

| Feb 26, 2021

Overall, Amy is a stunning, beautiful, and deeply personal, if somewhat voyeuristic, portrait of one of the greatest artists of a generation.

| Feb 3, 2021

Amy is done with respectful and informal excellence. If it succeeds at anything, and it succeeds at many things, it's that it shows that Winehouse deserved better treatment from everyone.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 31, 2021

We grow to love Amy a little bit so that, in the film's bleak final act, we do more than shake our heads. We truly mourn.

| Jan 14, 2021

Running at a lengthy 2 hours and 8 minutes, Amy is a deeply moving, powerful and balanced documentary on a complex individual. At times it's not an easy watch but it's certainly worthy of my highest recommendation.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 15, 2020

[A]n honest portrait of a deeply sensitive person whose inherent troubles were magnified by enablers, opportunists, and the celebrity machine.

| Apr 8, 2020

It's difficult to watch, and Amy doesn't portray her as a martyr. She's a profoundly tragic figure battling a nasty affliction, and Kapadia makes no excuses for her.

| Feb 13, 2020

To watch the film is to witness an energy, an incredible source of life that draws everyone in and then, just as quickly, is snuffed out.

| Feb 1, 2020

Amy succeeds at humanizing Winehouse but leaves you feeling queasy at your own eagerness to watch the trainwreck.

| Jan 10, 2020

Winehouse, both in her public appearances and in the private films and audio recordings, is funny, sharp, brash, as crude as she is elegant.

| Jun 28, 2019

An incredible study and a challenge to public complicity, what sticks most from this tender and complex portrait is its subject's gaze; Kapadia forces us into Amy's mind and keeps us there. A cinematic treat.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 7, 2019

Just as Senna made a villain of track officials and Alain Prost, so Amy doesn't pull any punches in describing a preventable finale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2019

Director Asif Kapadia doesn't need to use "re-enactments" or the other types of visual filler we see in most documentaries. Instead, as audio interviews with her colleagues, friends, and family play we see Amy herself.

| Mar 8, 2019

A deeply moving piece of cinema, sad and heartbreaking, that paints an intimate portrait of the troubled Winehouse.

| Original Score: A | Jan 23, 2019

Kapadia shows us the Amy behind the trainwreck tabloid escapades. She becomes someone we want to root for. And not just because of her million dollar pipes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2018