AMY – Review by MaryAnn Johanson

She told us. She told us flat out how it would be. She told us she was a mess. She told us she was self-destructive. She told us fame would kill her. She said it in her lyrics — not even halfway, not in any way metaphorical or sidewise. She said it in interviews. That’s all right here in the astonishing documentary Amy, one of the best films of the year so far: the sound recordings journalists made while talking to her, the lyrics right up there on the screen so there isn’t even any need to try to unravel her sometimes gloriously muddied jazzy elocution. Amy Winehouse might have been a poet, but there was nothing figurative or symbolic in what she said. She was telling us her blunt, undisguised truth. Read more>>