‘Back to Black’ Review: You Know This Amy Winehouse Biopic Is No Good

More visualized Wikipedia article than movie, Back to Black covers a wide swath of Amy Winehouse’s life and career without any real depth. Though the film purports to be about the making of the hit album of the same name, it lacks any of the emotional or artistic specificity that made Winehouse such a success. Rather, it has next to no point of view about the singer, her toxic relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, or her myriad addiction issues. It’s a movie about one of this century’s most outspoken and spoken-about artists...