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Amy

2015
Documentary
Biography
2h 8m
A documentary on the late singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011. (imdb)
Directed by:
Asif Kapadia Asif Kapadia
Starring:
Yasiin Bey Yasiin Bey David Letterman Jay Leno Jay Leno Russell Brand Russell Brand Jonathan Ross Amy Winehouse Mark Ronson Tyler James Guy Moot Mitch Winehouse Bobby Womack Lucian Grainge
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Genres:
Documentary, Biography, Music
Country:
UK
Language:
English
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Amy

2015
Documentary
Biography
2h 8m
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randallodimRandallODim
Rated 12 Aug 2015
87
85th
Possibly the most subtly heartbreaking feature of this film is the slow transition from personal home movies to media and paparazzi footage. The way this implicates even the viewer in Winehouse's decline is completely crushing.
Rated 12 Aug 2015
fredericg54frederic_g54
Rated 10 Jul 2015
8
78th
Affectionate and often illuminating documentary that unfolds like a potent critique as well as chilling cautionary tale of celebrity excess. I'm not ashamed to admit I know few numbers from the Winehouse repertoire and have only got to know her through the copious amounts of shallow tidbits strewn across the interweb. But through candid interviews and tons of intimate footage, the film ultimately reveals a face, heart and soul behind behind the self-destructive façade.
Rated 10 Jul 2015
bakcheiabakcheia
Rated 17 Jul 2015
92
89th
What fortifies this film is how we spend almost every second with Amy or in her presence. There are few cuts to commentators discussing her, and these rare interjections are done tastefully in voiceover while we watch a myriad of intimate home videos and outtakes. In doing so, the filmmakers immerse us in her life as much as possible, illuminating us to her dazzling highs and devastating lows. AMY shows us the toxicity of celebrity, and a beautiful soul shamefully denigrated by indifference.
Rated 17 Jul 2015
bownBown
Rated 04 Nov 2015
82
62nd
A very powerful doc that does an excellent job of implicating many others in Winehouse's downfall without ever forgetting that it all stemmed from her destructive personality and love of excess. It's so tough to see the times where something could have been done but someone would stop it for their own selfish needs
Rated 04 Nov 2015
hellsditchhellsditch
Rated 29 Dec 2015
84
81st
Like Morgen's "Montage of Heck", Kapadia defies the odds by taking the "portrait of a young artist ill-equipped to handle the crush of unexpected superstardom" template and finding new ways to devastate, mostly via interviews with people who actually loved her before she became the AMY WINEHOUSE of tabloid infamy. Her post-Grammy win (delivered by her idol, no less!!!) confession to a childhood friend made a mess of me, having come moments after what should have been her life's crowning moment.
Rated 29 Dec 2015
cocoramirezCocoRamirez
Rated 26 Dec 2015
75
71st
I was never really interested in Amy Winehouse's music or life but this documentary really captivated me. It's a story about a troubled human being that never really had a chance at life. It's pretty heartbreaking to watch this person getting worse and worse and slowly disappearing from life long before her death.
Rated 26 Dec 2015
doughbarondoughbaron
Rated 03 Aug 2015
80
80th
Amy forces us to experience Winehouse's life closely, at times minute by minute, but fails to illuminate the true demons in her psyche. This is not a fault of the film itself, but merely a reflection of her inability to find personal connections more satisfying than drugs.
Rated 03 Aug 2015
venecVenec
Rated 15 Aug 2015
80
59th
So depressing I'm actually drinking myself to cope with it. I guess I didn't learn the lesson.
Rated 15 Aug 2015
vinegarbobVinegarBob
Rated 22 Jan 2016
80
80th
Amy Winehouse had a good deal of talent and a truckload of insecurities. This documentary charts her rise to fame and the shocking crash and burn that followed shortly thereafter. Looking back Winehouse was far too psychologically fragile to cope with where she found herself and help was always one more concert away. Soul crushingly sad.
Rated 22 Jan 2016
sirrobbieSirRobbie
Rated 05 Aug 2015
80
81st
Fuck the 27 Club!!! I want Amy back!!!!!
Rated 05 Aug 2015
damildamil
Rated 21 Aug 2015
75
81st
Her story is such a classic tragedy. It's a very intimate film, even more so than Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015), as we never really leave her. It's tough not to blame certain people in her life, but she was a troubled and different woman from the beginning. Anyway, it's a good film that leaves you feeling down, but glad to still see happy moments in her life, and that we still have her brilliant music.
Rated 21 Aug 2015
cowfrappecowfrappe
Rated 23 Jan 2016
79
86th
A fantastically curated look at the inner-workings of Winehouse's mind. Voyeuristic and unsettling, while still artistic and mesmerizing.
Rated 23 Jan 2016
kavuKavu
Rated 27 Jan 2016
80
69th
Well built documentary that reveals something about the person behind the façade.
Rated 27 Jan 2016
omgfridgeomgfridge
Rated 28 Jul 2015
9
92nd
Such a different musical biography to the also fantastic - "Cobain: Montage of Heck" yet dishes equal impact. Your eyes are never off Amy and nor should they be, sometimes it does prove to be a quite daunting experience. Have to say both her dad and boyfriend are pretty vile individuals. Extra props goes out to the man, Mark Ronson.
Rated 28 Jul 2015
moraesfelipemoraesfelipe
Rated 12 Feb 2016
30
5th
That body bag near the end was really the image I needed to completely dislike this. Pretty much the same procedures in Senna -- voices against archive imgs -- applied in a lazier way. Do we need another TMZ-like biopic to tell us how fucked up Amy was? Kapadia just takes the easy path to show one self-destruction amateur footage after another. This is really a wasted chance to understand her talent and songwriting. A movie that doesn't care about her -- but only about degrating images.
Rated 12 Feb 2016
sw1341sw1341
Rated 22 Jul 2015
100
97th
What a good film. What a tragic end to such a talented young woman.
Rated 22 Jul 2015
cinemaasiaCinema_Asia
Rated 18 Jan 2016
80
84th
Doesn't use creative abstraction or bland commentary as filler but gives "the day in the life of" account of Amy Winehouse's monumental success, meltdown, and death. Using her music as the anchor and actual footage of the high and low points of her life gives us insight into what made her tick. Substance abuse, vocal genius, and a thirst to occupy her limited attention span and emotional issues made her a ticking timebomb. Unfortunately there may not have been a real solution to her problems.
Rated 18 Jan 2016
langelundLangelund
Rated 09 Aug 2015
75
77th
A powerful depiction of the spiral of destruction. Though Winehouse as a character is not nearly as complex and interesting as Kapadia's latest protagonist, Ayrton Senna.
Rated 09 Aug 2015
kasperlKasperL
Rated 14 Nov 2015
75
77th
Poor Amy.
Rated 14 Nov 2015
obtiosovobtiosov
Rated 30 Nov 2015
78
64th
:'(((
Rated 30 Nov 2015
ecitizeneCitizen
Rated 06 Mar 2016
91
91st
A fairly well told story of the life of Amy Winehouse. Her rapid rise to fame was rather amazing. It is truly sad that her brilliant young life was cut short by her personal demons & the burden of her fame. The traits that made her so great also contributed to her early demise. It's hard to understand how she could be so strong and yet so fragile. I particularly dislike the paparazzi that mobbed her with blinding flashbulbs, hounded her incessantly & her pathetic loser boyfriend.
Rated 06 Mar 2016
hofschneiderHofschneider
Rated 23 Dec 2015
79
61st
A sad movie about a tragic woman, who wasn't strong nor smart enough to break with her past, her patterns. Always choosing idiots on her side, that resemble her asshole-father or: are his father. Nobody gets rid of his parents, people don't do that. But, Winehouse not even able to reflect on this, which made her less interesting. I'm far away from saying, she deserved all that, especially because she never harmed anyone but herself, but her lack of intellect didn't made the movie better.
Rated 23 Dec 2015
donquixoticdonquixotic
Rated 28 Oct 2015
50
33rd
It turns out I'm really not that interested in Amy Winehouse. Nicely mad doc but it's just not for me
Rated 28 Oct 2015
ippeiIppei
Rated 04 Aug 2016
80
86th
One of the best documentaries I've seen. I'm not a big fan of hers, but her story is both fascinating and tragic, and as a film has you engaged the whole time. You do always have to take documentaries with a grain of salt as it is influenced by the filmmakers, but it ultimately doesn't change the fact of her talented she was and how very sad the last few years of her life was.
Rated 04 Aug 2016
mspraguemsprague
Rated 13 Feb 2016
60
31st
A film documenting the gradual self-destruction of the singer while those around her either did little to stop or directly contributed to the state she was in.
Rated 13 Feb 2016
wetwillieswetwillies
Rated 14 Oct 2015
85
59th
Given an unbelievable amount of access to archival footage, Kapadia crafts a brilliantly edited, harrowing documentary about the tragedy of fame itself. Here, flashbulbs are like gunshots, weapons, a signal of an impending doom that, unfortunately, turned out to be all too real.
Rated 14 Oct 2015
staryarabbistaryarabbi
Rated 17 Oct 2015
70
56th
The images were almost bursting out of screen thanks to the focus on Amy's face and her full of spirit attitude but after a while it irritated me because it was almost the same attitude with which paparazzis were approaching her. And apart from the evilness of her husband and father, I think that she had the death drive and will to destroy herself which is a common characteristic in almost all pioneering & rebellious artists, good that it' made almost completely out of real footage.
Rated 17 Oct 2015
fra_paolofra paolo
Rated 19 Aug 2018
84
89th
It's not literally a tragedy, as I don't think Ms Winehouse suffered from hubris -- she didn't want the fame, she just wanted to make records. It is, however, an object lesson in the dehumanising effects of the commodification of art under Late Capitalism.
Rated 19 Aug 2018
cosmicmonkeyCosmicMonkey
Rated 05 Oct 2017
80
68th
It's really fascinating to see how everyone in her life shifted the responsibility of blame, when in reality, she likely could be still with us if just one of them decided to put in some effort to help her.
Rated 05 Oct 2017
ryan_luedersRyan Lueders
Rated 06 May 2017
73
37th
Poor Amy. I remember seeing some kind of spoof comedy where it shows Amy Winehouse as a cave-woman. She was swigging from a bottle and taking pills I think and then belching. At the time, I thought it was hilarious. I mean, what a hot mess right? After watching this film, I feel bad that I took glee in someone's problems. She seemed like a nice girl that just wanted to write music and perform in small spaces. She didn't want to be an international superstar...
Rated 06 May 2017
daphnlDaph_NL
Rated 22 Jan 2017
70
89th
Amy is devestating to watch. To see an incredibly young girl so troubled and surrounded by 'adults', people who should have known better, not doing anything to help her. When a child tells a parent that the're basically boulimic, that they should go to rehab, and they say that 'it'll pass', is just horrible. Amy is a lesson on how to fuck somebody up and let them die. 70/100.
Rated 22 Jan 2017
twincinematwincinema
Rated 22 Mar 2016
75
64th
I sleepily watched this documentary, so those hoping for any deep insight will be let down. Listen, for some of us, 10PM, even if it is on a Saturday night, feels late. I am not the spry young man I once was, so staying up late feels like a distant memory before the horrors of age cast their spell on me. Oh yeah, this doc is good.
Rated 22 Mar 2016
jenner1407jenner1407
Rated 25 Jul 2015
90
97th
Peter Travers (surprisingly) puts it best: "Look, listen and weep."
Rated 25 Jul 2015
fenixdownfenixdown
Rated 19 Jan 2020
78
66th
Hard livin' and incredible songwriting.
Rated 19 Jan 2020
comepeliculacomepelicula
Rated 18 Feb 2016
60
52nd
Interesting documentary with good footage and narrated by Amy and the people around her, that made it subjective but more real. On the down side it just merely portrayed the facts and didn't try to go a step further about an interesting person. The footage where Amy wins the Grammy is really fantastic a bit surrealistic and shows that she was still a child.
Rated 18 Feb 2016
daisy_fairydaisy-fairy
Rated 11 Aug 2015
100
98th
It's like a story about myself, I love it completely.
Rated 11 Aug 2015
myfavchordsmyfavchords
Rated 12 Apr 2016
78
71st
This is an interesting documentary on Amy Winehouse. I did not know a lot about the singer before I watched this film. There is a lot of home video footage and a lot of interviews from people that knew the singer. Overall I would recommend this film.
Rated 12 Apr 2016
mandymandy
Rated 22 Jul 2015
8
92nd
Compellling, moving and personal portrayal of Amy Winehouse, revealing the quite ordinary, flawed ,talented personality behind the public image.
Rated 22 Jul 2015
aaautinAAAutin
Rated 07 Feb 2016
68
82nd
Wow, that song sure seems tragic in hindsight, huh? (I'm talking, of course, about the duet with Tony Bennett; I mean, what a dinosaur!)
Rated 07 Feb 2016
jaiguyJaiGuy
Rated 07 Mar 2016
80
62nd
She couldn't handle the spotlight and all that it entails. What more do you need to know, folks? Kurt Cobain had the same demons.
Rated 07 Mar 2016
schnofelschnofel
Rated 09 Mar 2016
29
11th
To me Winehouse was a minor songwriter with a smoky, catching voice who in her self-involvement was mixing up dependence with love and couldn't escape the maelstrom. This is tragic, but in its details should be private. Presented like this it's the same tabloid fodder that it supposedly criticizes, and all the shots of Winehouse's vacant eyes in the world don't illuminate anything interesting about her character.
Rated 09 Mar 2016
punqPUNQ
Rated 30 Oct 2015
70
96th
Amy (2015) does a tremendous job of uncovering the emotional being Amy Winehouse was. We get as close to her as it's possible post mortem with tons of private video moments, along with concert clips, interviews and paparazzi storms. You see and understand that the story of Amy Winehouse almost had to end the way it did because of her heavily changing moods and people surrounding her. Great music and also filled with genuine human moments from the artist who joined the '27 Club'.
Rated 30 Oct 2015
jbynjbyn
Rated 28 Feb 2016
73
47th
Amy successfully evokes a sense of tragedy without trying to be manipulative. It felt uncomfortable to see so much of her personal life revealed. I wish she had someone in her life to show her love. All the people in her life that should have loved her were using her instead. I think the documentary may have benefited by showcasing more of her music. Although, when the music was used, I like how it emphasized the story being told.
Rated 28 Feb 2016
vassagoVassago
Rated 31 Dec 2015
88
95th
It's just so sad to lose a talent like her.
Rated 31 Dec 2015
wwallce4prezWWallce4prez
Rated 11 Jan 2018
81
77th
A devistating look inside a tortured soul. Through her telling gazes and gorgeous voice, the film feels like a warning against what fame can bring. What a treasure of a person.
Rated 11 Jan 2018
tsvetetsvete
Rated 14 Mar 2017
100
96th
1
Rated 14 Mar 2017
mjoc0723mjoc0723
Rated 21 Oct 2023
40
27th
No documentary should be longer than 90 minutes, much less 2 hours! If they had cut 30 to 40 minutes out of this it may have been watchable.
Rated 21 Oct 2023
bzymusbzymus
Rated 20 Oct 2022
70
39th
ok
Rated 20 Oct 2022
ag0stomesmerAg0stoMesmer
Rated 09 Jan 2016
3
73rd
Not so familiar with her stuff so the subtitles were really appreciated. It's done well, her talent and charisma as clear as the awfulness of most men in her life.
Rated 09 Jan 2016
djrossdjross
Rated 18 Jul 2016
50
44th
Doesn't really contain a lot of insights and doesn't really succeed in making the singer seem like a terribly interesting person.
Rated 18 Jul 2016
dunbardunbar
Rated 27 Mar 2016
88
90th
Quite sad, quite tragic, quite a lost little girl at the heart of a great jazz soul.
Rated 27 Mar 2016
mattorama12mattorama12
Rated 09 Mar 2016
73
71st
A sadly all too familiar story of a musical talent going from success to excess. The amount of home footage allows you to feel like a fly on the wall and get to know her, but it also means slogging through horribly low quality footage that often looks like a 90s tv show re-enactment.
Rated 09 Mar 2016
angelicakhangelica_kh
Rated 19 Feb 2018
60
30th
+ rare footage of Amy + background story + music - not enough about art, music - shallow - left questions unanswered - media hypocrisy
Rated 19 Feb 2018
gideonGideon
Rated 30 Dec 2016
3
92nd
Just sad all around. Waste of a true talent.
Rated 30 Dec 2016
patmanpatman
Rated 24 Aug 2016
67
58th
Uncomfortably intimate and unsettling as we get a close look on Amy's turbulent road towards fame. From a young, rebellious but mature and vulnerable woman, we follow her as she reaches a success she wasn't prepared or even made for, and how her troubled relationships throws her in a spiral of addictions. It's a tragic personal story that doesn't showcase enough of her musical gift.
Rated 24 Aug 2016
carlosproCarlospro
Rated 14 Mar 2016
65
27th
Que pena que um diretor ruim teve acesso a essas imagens.
Rated 14 Mar 2016
kadikoykadikoy
Rated 06 May 2019
90
96th
Amy Winehouse'un hayat hikayesi. Hızlı yaşa genç öl kuralını tam anlamıyla yaşamış. Sorumsuz bir aile, kötü sevgililer, umursamaz arkadaşlar ile yaşanan bir hayat. Aşırı alkol ve uyuşturucu, hayatını da karartmış. Buna rağmen sanatı ve sesiyle devrim yaratmış. Para ve şöhret ise işkence. Özgürlüğünü kaybeden kadın. İnsanın canı yanar ya bazen hiçbir şey yapmak istemez. Herşeyden vazgeçer. Herşeyden çok.
Rated 06 May 2019
sveneriksvenerik
Rated 13 Apr 2016
85
78th
The most powerful horror film I've seen in some time.
Rated 13 Apr 2016
cinegeekdecinegeek.de
Rated 07 Mar 2016
80
55th
Eine richtige Biographie ist Amy nicht, dafür eine Untersuchung, was unter dem Namen Amy Winehouse in die Musikgeschichte einging. Amy, das ist die Suche nach sich selbst im Musik Business. Es ist eine Selbstentgrenzung... mehr auf cinegeek.de
Rated 07 Mar 2016
doyler29doyler29
Rated 26 May 2022
80
68th
I didn't know much about Winehouse since I wasn't following pop culture much during her heyday. She had an incredible voice, and I was pleasantly surprised by how serious she was about jazz. It's depressing that such gifts often come with such intense darkness.
Rated 26 May 2022
telemecusTelemecus
Rated 11 Jun 2020
54
63rd
Archival footage stitched together. Some of the voice over interviews did provide more background but there was nothing revelatory otherwise.
Rated 11 Jun 2020
montycircusMontyCircus
Rated 22 Jan 2020
60
69th
It's hard to watch someone slowly disintegrate before your eyes. This was a tough watch, but affecting to be sure.
Rated 22 Jan 2020
vv238vv238
Rated 25 Sep 2018
94
98th
I'll fully admit my undying fandom for the music of Amy Winehouse. It made this documentary that much more heartbreaking for me.
Rated 25 Sep 2018
midasoMidaso
Rated 31 May 2020
7
81st
One of the few times I cried when a celebrity died is when I got the news that Amy Winehouse died because I could see it coming a mile way but just kept hope that maybe things would work out for her. Very sad story, well made doco
Rated 31 May 2020

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