Asif Kapadia’s incredible 2015 documentary about the iconic singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse quite rightly won awards and praise for its hard hitting focus on the rise and fall of one of Britain's great musical talents of the last few decades. The recent biopic, Back to Black, is more nuanced, and director Sam Taylor-Johnson spends much of the film focusing on Winehouse’s early years and North London upbringing, her relationship with her Nan (played by Lesley Manville), and her rise to fame. Her dad (Eddie Marsan) comes over more sympathetically than some of the media reports might indicate, but her toxic relationship with her partner Blake Fielder-Civil (Jack O’Connell) takes up the emotional heart of the film.

Winehouse’s triumphs and addictions are laid bare, and the star of the show is, quite rightly, Marisa Abela as Amy. As a relative unknown on the big screen (although she stars in the TV show Industry), Abela puts in a superb performance which shows Winehouse’s vulnerability, determination and of course sheer talent.

In the Guardian, Peter Bradshaw gave it a four star review: “Back to Black is essentially a gentle, forgiving film and there are other, tougher, bleaker ways to put Winehouse’s life on screen – but Abela conveys her tenderness, and perhaps most poignantly of all her youth, so tellingly at odds with that tough image and eerily mature voice.”