“Back To Black” (*** out of four) was a captivating biography of music star Amy Winehouse (Marisa Abela) who came out of nowhere in the early 2000’s and took the music scene by storm with the title blockbuster album and whose career was sadly undone and crippled by mental health and drug problems leading to her early death in 2011. Final third showing Winehouse’s downfall feels a little sanitized and truncated but film does a good job in showing her upbringing and love of music that translated onto the stage. Abela (who looks at times more like Britney Spears) is strong in the lead and so is Jack O’Connell as her long-time partner.

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