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

Guys, after watching the 128-minute film, I can honestly say that I have never seen a documentary that has turned me off so much as this one has.

| Original Score: D | Sep 1, 2017

Kapadia's documentary -- which uses home video, archival footage, and clips of concerts and old and new interviews -- feels a bit like a horror film, except the inescapable monster is fame.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 10, 2016

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.

| Jul 17, 2015

[Kapadia] leaves you with is an incredible feeling of sadness, irrespective of whether you knew and liked her music or not.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 17, 2015

A powerful, and powerfully sad, experience.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 10, 2015

A mesmerizing yet devastating look at a singular talent.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 10, 2015

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 10, 2015

Plenty of folks praise Winehouse in "Amy." But no one was there to save her. Perhaps it wasn't possible. But perhaps it was.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 10, 2015

The film is often uncomfortable to watch, prompting that little voice inside each of us to scream out "Somebody help her!"

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 9, 2015

One thing is for certain: It will be much harder to hear that handful of powerful, lush, carnal songs on Back to Black without the wallop of melancholy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 9, 2015

"Amy" doesn't depart from the standard behind-the-music template, but it does deepen the format immeasurably, through the intimacy of its archival materials and the focus of its approach.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 9, 2015

The film is remarkable not just for the immense talent there to see in Winehouse's performances, but the fact that there is so much to see.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 9, 2015

"Amy," Asif Kapadia's documentary about the short, tragic life of British retro soul singer Amy Winehouse, is a heartbreaker.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 9, 2015

Kapadia's illuminating, compassionate and tragic doc goes way up and way, way down with the gone-too-soon Amy Winehouse.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 9, 2015

A loving but honest portrayal of a doomed talent.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 9, 2015

Kapadia and King provide some worthy insights about the damaging effects of celebrity on psychologically fragile individuals. And the music is fantastic.

| Jul 9, 2015

To his credit, [director Asif] Kapadia allows the murk of recollected events to complicate matters, and everyone gets their say.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 9, 2015

It's hard to watch. And even harder to look away.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 9, 2015

In Kapadia's assured and careful hands, the film becomes less a portrait of a tragic artist, whose downward spiral was exacerbated by opportunistic family members and colleagues, than a discomfiting mirror held up to her audience.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 9, 2015