Review ‘Back to Black’: Amy Winehouse’s Tragic End

In 2007, 24-year-old Amy Winehouse, the English pop singer and songwriter, was asked where she would like to be in ten years’ time. “I’d like to have a couple of kids,” she said. “Two or three. I’d like to be there.”

But Winehouse never got there. In 2011, at age 27, she died of alcohol poisoning in her London home. A new biopic, Back to Black, named after Winehouse’s bestselling album and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, tells the story of the short-lived pop icon.

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In 2007, 24-year-old Amy Winehouse, the English pop singer and songwriter, was asked where she would like to be in ten years’ time. “I’d like to have a couple of kids,” she said. “Two or three. I’d like to be there.”

But Winehouse never got there. In 2011, at age 27, she died of alcohol poisoning in her London home. A new biopic, Back to Black, named after Winehouse’s bestselling album and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, tells the story of the short-lived pop icon.