Redundant and unnecessary.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

This was an outstanding documentary. Clearly everyone around Amy watched her go down slowly. Such a tragedy.

A biographical documentary depicting both the early personal life and musical career of Amy Winehouse, who unfortunately overdosed on drugs in 2011. Biopics are difficult to review, you have to refrain from judging the person that is being portrayed and just review the documentary itself. However, before I start I would like to say that Amy Winehouse was incredibly talented. It really was a shame what she went through in terms of her own personal demons. She was clearly infectiously likeable and down to earth, devoted to her one passion. This documentary creatively captures her fragility through the use of old recordings, montages of pictures with onscreen lyrics to accompany them and countless awards ceremonies for all the recognition she rightfully deserved. This is a statement. To explore and convey the desirable disease of fame. Fame. It can corrupt the most innocent of souls. The influx of money, power and popularity can enhance the accessibility of drugs and alcohol. In Amy's case, it destroyed her. Not solely, the film takes the time to go through her stages of early depression before she took the world by storm. It's utterly moving and powerful. A young woman susceptible to external influences. She didn't know what she was doing, it was out of her control. The way the media covered her story rather enraged me, with several chat shows and news reports mocking her. It's important to acknowledge that the media only saw one side to her, but it's a shame they reduced her to a mess. As empathetic as this is, we also celebrate her work by listening and watching her perform. Director Asif Kapadia dynamically balanced her lows and highs to portray an enigmatic young woman who was taken from us far too early. The runtime could've been slightly shorter to maintain a tighter biopic, but it's a fitting tribute and I highly recommend you watch this. Like me, you don't need to be a fan of her to appreciate the complexity and intellectual narrative of this documentary.

With this documentary, Asif Kapadia and his team took on no easy task. In using stock footage and interviews with her peers to piece together the story of the late Amy Winehouse, there were several directions with which this film could have been taken, and I was pleasantly surprised with where the film ended up going. To exemplify, upon my initial hearing of the film's production, I feared that this would be nothing more than a layman's attempt at profiting off of the dramatization of an already dramatic and tumultuous set of circumstances surrounding a troubled artist. However, quickly into the film's run time, it became abundantly clear to me that this was not to be the case.While tackling the darker aspects of Amy Winehouse's life, which have unfortunately come to be a trademark of her's amongst the general public, Kapadia was capable of highlighting a natural and extraordinary musical talent. In this, the goal of the documentary is clear: to humanize the human being turned commercial entity, Amy Winehouse. Essentially, bursting at the seams with passion and soul, her voice was pure magic, but her life also turned extremely tragic. This film finds a way to appropriately balance both, which allows a special relationship to be built between Winehouse and audiences who watch it, particularly if they were not much familiar with her or her music prior. The documentary breaks your heart, but it also makes it hard not to fall in love with Amy.Now, the film also seems to pose a question; that being who is truly responsible for Amy's spiral into turmoil and untimely death? In attempting to answer this, the film places blame on several persons, including her ex-husband, her father, the world at large, and Amy herself. Ultimately, this is, in my opinion, a question not worth asking, as an argument for at least partial responsibility can clearly be attributed to all. Still, however, I am thankful for the exceptional job the film does in revitalizing and polishing the damaged reputation of one of modern music's greatest gifts and most devastating losses.

I have known my share of addicts. Even though Amy was famous, she was no different than any other addicts. I am glad the film makers showed her as not just an out of control addict. She knew what she was which is what makes it even more heartbreaking. She was a kind, beautiful lost soul. May she RIP and find the peace she could not find on this Earth.