"Revisiting Amy Winehouse: Back to Black Biopic Sparks Controversy and Praise"
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The new biopic "Back to Black" about Amy Winehouse is criticized for perpetuating damaging tropes and suggesting that her inability to have a child was the source of her torment, reducing her complexity and contributing to a gendered simplification of her struggles, ultimately insulting her legacy and tragic demise.
- It’s a grotesque insult for Back to Black to suggest Amy Winehouse died of heartache over her childlessness The Guardian
- Amy Winehouse's ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil reacts to Back to Black film The Independent
- The one thing that Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black gets so right BBC.com
- The Renegade Director Reclaiming Amy Winehouse’s Soul Hollywood Reporter
- 'Back to Black' Review: Amy Winehouse Biopic Offers Crude Highlight Reel of Her Tragically Short Career IndieWire
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