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Back to Black review: Amy Winehouse biopic breaks its promise to celebrate her music and the result is Saturday-night impersonation

So if they try to make you watch this movie, say: no, no, no. Much better to put on Back to Black, the album, or the song, and remember what really made Amy a star.

The telly show with Matthew Kelly?There's more than just a touch of Stars in Their Eyes about Back to Black, Sam Taylor-Johnson's new biopic of that most talented, most troubled of singers, Amy Winehouse. Even the death of Winehouse's beloved grandmother, Cynthia – played with grace and wit by Lesley Manville, in by far the film's best performance – is merely a shot or two in yet another lazy montage. Instead, it spends most of its time forcing her to make goo-goo eyes at her one-time husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, here played as a cheeky monkey with a bit of a coke habit by the overly buff Jack O'Connell.

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